Starting to worm dirt the gardens

[Jay Blair]

Spent today mixing worm castings and dirt to topsoil the raised beds for my cold season crops in January and February.
I so enjoy gardening withouth purchasing fertilizer or insectesides. Just have to be careful of the spiders that live in the weed control thatch after the weather warms up

[jimmy2s83]

Spiders! Yup I don't like them. Some are OK but any of them that bite me soon find my shoes coming down on them at a rapid speed.
Although as a youngster my brother and I would find ants and throw them in spider webs in an old abandoned chicken coop. That was our form of entertainment. That and knocking down the Hornets nests and running away. Amazing we only got stung a couple of times from all the nests we knocked down over the years.

[Jay Blair]

The spiders in my garden are how I control cut worms and tomato worms under most circumstances.

So far I have 9 planting squares layered and thatched and 1/2 of my 49 foot luffa and okra row layered out. Should have used my tape measure instead of eyeballin' and I might of got that extra foot for a even 50

My neighbors look at me as if I were a litter bug carrying the equivelent of 2 hay bales at a time of shredded newsprint, old bills and junk mail out there.

Of course after the leaves and grass thatch are layered over the top they breath a sigh of relief and the old lady acrpss the street actually replied how with the newspaper, leaves, grass and soil layered that my three foot deep bed did look like a "big lasagna"

Later today or tomorrow, I will try to upload a few pictures of my smaller area , leaner labor and meaner producing garden plot this year.

I also need to harvest more castings and separate out a couple hundred more pounds of my little wormy garden tillers to add to the beds and hope to get the time to take pictures of that also to share here.

Catch up with y'all later today while I take my chore breaks.