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Hey guys! It’s Phil from smilinggardener.com and I, you know I wanna start putting some
lessons together for these videos, but I’m just so busy right now that I can’t do it
so to be honest I don’t have that much for you today other than just to tell you what
I’ve been up to with my organic vegetable garden.
And basically, a couple of days ago I was just getting kinda fed up for sitting in front
of the computer all the time so I, I had a basic concept plan for the, for my organic
vegetable garden so I just came out and started digging.
So I’ll show you what I have done with my organic vegetable garden and it’s kinda
like a do today, but I’ve been doing a lot of digging here as you can see. So what I’m
doing as I mentioned before is I’m, I’m putting a vegetable garden, but instead of
kinda throwing it in the back corner of the property which often happens I’m, I’m
designing it right into the existing gardens making it nice and curvy and beautiful and
you know, keeping it just a few steps from the kitchen door so it’s very easy for the
chef to come out and get herbs and vegetables and things like that.
So you can see I’ve, I’ve kinda started an edge here putting a nice, a nice round,
friendly edge on there. I’m starting to put in a couple of paths so I’m gonna dig
six to eight inches down here and continue that path and just make it a nice solid path
you know by giving it a good base.
Same over here where I gonna put in more of a, more of a wood chip path and I have newspaper
under there and here you can see I’ve started a sheet mulch, so I laid my newspaper down
right on top of the grass and I’ve just put it you know pretty good thick layer of
newspaper and I overlap it and that would stop the grass from coming through.
And then, I got my horse manure on top, I did not have that much but that’s, that’s
a nice little layer of horse manure to bring in some beneficial microorganisms and some
you know, nitrogen and nutrients and earthworms and things like that; and then later I’m
gonna get stroll and I’ll finish that this weekend. So next week, I’ll have a finish
sheet mulch to show you and I’ll show you the whole thing then.
Other than that I guess the one thing that is making my organic vegetable garden less
beautiful is I do have to put up something to keep the bunny rabbits out, coz they like
vegetables just as much as me as I was saying yesterday in the blog.
So I haven’t secured this thing yet but I’ve rough in some bamboo and some chicken
wire and it’s fairly an intrusive, it’s only a couple feet tall which I found in the
past is all I really need to keep the rabbit out.
And that’s really all I have today. I guess you can also see that the lawn is loaded with
dandelions. You know this is a world setting out here so we don’t really tend to worry
about every heed the dandelions greens and it’s fine but probably at some point this
year I will take a section and show you how to get rid of those organically without digging
them all out.
So yeah that’s what I got for you today, hopefully I’ll put some lesson together
soon as I’m a little bit less overwhelmed with this project. You know putting in a vegetable
garden is really not that bigger deal and this is a pretty small vegetable garden I’ve
kept it small because, because basically that I’m, I’m learning that’s about ten percent
of the process her, because what I’m doing is everything I do I’m putting it on video
and I’m writing an article; and so it’s really a lot of work. So I thought just this
year I’ll keep the garden small and manageable so I can really focusing on, focus on the
teaching.
So, yeah! I guess I should get a good before shot here too, because I haven’t done enough
of that yet so that’s all for now if you, if you, if you’re not watching this on the
website like if you’re on the YouTube or something and you haven’t gone to the website
and picked up those free lessons I put together the 15 vital lessons for becoming a better
organic gardener, check those out.
There’s some really cool lessons in there and other than that I’ll gonna, I will be
putting some, some more lessons on video together for you as soon as I get this project under
control here. So, yeah! That’s all for now I hope you have a great weekend.