Thursday, 13 October 2011

Garlic Report

We had planned to plant the garlic on Wednesday but there just is not enough time

in an evening to get it done - it gets dark early and we had rain.

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The new garlic field being built up and the soil improved. So far  7  loads ( 24 yards ) of

composted manure loaded, hauled, spread and tilled in.

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Trench along chainlink fence dug out to save the soil and raise the elevation of the

garlic planting area. Trench is 150 feet long, 2.5 feet wide, 1 foot deep  -  14 yards

of soil dug out and added to garlic planting area.

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New landscape fabric and multiflow drainage tile laid into trench.
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Fabric wrapped around the drainage tile and then nailed down. 
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Trench filled back in with composted sheep bedding material from the sheep field.

This material will create a 2.5 foot walking path along the chainlink fence that will be 

easy to weed.
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Roman, Robert, Elvira and kids loading, hauling, spreading and packing the last

of the trench in the dark and the rain. These pictures were taken at 6:30 pm on

Wednesday enening.

Take notice of the change on the outside of the chainlink fence. The University staff

have taken away all the stuff that was stored along the fence. I then pulled and bagged 

the weeds and garbage,.cut the grass and blew away the weed seeds.

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