Photos of my garden today: corn, berries, lettuce

[Stubbornhillfarm]

Serenity! Your setting is that which I would love as well. I love the forest/woods/mountains. And I especially love that you are using mulch as cover on your plants. Is that natural mulch from your earth or have you created or purchased mulch? Either way it is all good. I am just curious.

Thank you for sharing pictures. I love learning about where other people live and what their landscape looks like. There is such beauty in this world.

 

[897tgigvib]

My soil is very natural normal forest compost. Forest compost happens fast here with Firs and Oaks. I rake the litter layer off an area, then using the leaf rake, I rub down through the compost layer. I especially get it from areas that have it deep, where there are visible patches of soil fungus, the good kind.

At the garden I often mix the compost with ash. My first couple years I think I used too much ash. As my garden grew, the newer areas have less ash and this soil mix has moved. So, it's not really being used as a mulch, it actually is my garden soil, especially so in that new bed with the Freckles Lettuce. My furthest south bed is richest in ash.

Next winter's garden work will not be any more enlarging, but framing the beds completely and raising some of them some more, which will mean more forest compost.

I am very careful never to remove all the forest compost from any areas, and I usually cover it back up with the forest litter layer I raked off. I have noticed that it really rebuilds naturally surprisingly fast.

So far I have not purchased any soil. I've never added any manure either. I've been considering adding some bags of steer manure next winter though...and some red clay soil...for color and water holding.

During summer months it is not very serene up here! 80 campers party harty all around here, boats zooming, kids playing, atv's, golf carts...after summer serenity comes back. Yes, this summer I will remain serene.