April 28th, 2005 Dan
The pathway is dug three shovel widths and the soil is moved to the new bed, on the right here. This almost doubles the topsoil depth in the beds.
Using the steel garden rake, soil is smoothed and the bed is created.
Amendments are spread along the two rows of the bed - compost, organic fertilizer and dolomite lime.
Amendments are throughly hoed to a depth of 4-6 inches. The bed is ready to plant.
The garlic was planted last fall. Asparagus is planted in the trench to the left. The deer fence is eight foot vinyl - at the bottom is four inches of wood chips over landscape fabric…there will be few weeds to deal with along this fenceline.
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April 11th, 2003 Dan
I played hookey from design work yesterday to take advantage of a brief dry spell. We had ordered 50 crowns of Jersey Giant Asparagus and the bed had to be prepared thoroughly. A well prepared and tended asparagus bed can produce for twenty years, so I want to do it just right.
First I levelled the bed and dug a 4″-5″ deep trench.
Then I spread two types of commercial compost and a natural organic plant food. Using a spading fork, I thoroughly mixed these materials with the soil to a depth of 12″.
I removed much of this amended soil and am left with a trench about 8″ deep with 3-4″ of amended soil at the bottom to place the crowns on. As the spears emerge and grow, the excavated soil will be gradually added to fill the trench.
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