Today I dug 5 gallons of coffee grounds and maybe five gallons of grass clippings into the bed along the east fence where the meal corn was. That’s very sandy, gravelly soil, and it will be interesting to see how good I can make it.
I also chopped down all the sweet corn stalks in the west bed and gave that a rough digging. If you go in there with a sharp machete, you can chop up the stalks as you chop them down quite easily, as long as they haven’t fully dried yet.
Harvested some self-seeded amaranth from the west bed. I didn’t get any amaranth grain from last year — couldn’t figure out how to separate the grain from the plant. We’ll see if I can figure it out this year.
Spread about 10 gallons of grass clippings on top of the dug-up area in the west bed. Dug a trench near the top of the bed, where the soil is most gravelly, and buried 5 gallons of kitchen scraps.
Ending and Beginning 