planted 4 fruit trees today.
dont get much chance to dig around in my hugelpile. no till, just dig a little hole and stick a seedling in.
but trees require actual hole digging.
omg. the soil. after only 3 years, it is just glorious. simply lousy w worms. brown w organic matter. wanted to sprinkle it on a bowl of ice cream and eat it.
it is working better than i dared to dream. last year was only the second year and raised 200 lbs of the most beautiful heirloom tomatoes with ZERO watering. ZERO.
it was a mild summer, cool, fairly rainy. but with the crappy sandy soil elsewhere on the plot i had to water almost daily.
and talk about beautiful fruits. big as babies heads. lb, lb and a half. no watering faults. no blossom end rot. no fungus.
gonna do mostly sweet peppers there this year.
will probably put tomatoes on the second pile, where the chicken tractor has been for the past year. 4" of sweet organic matter. lots of leaves. some straw. and plenty of nice aged chicken poop.
and shrooms. put in wine caps last year and the little buggers overran the place. in fact, i missed a bunch of them. they were hiding under the potato vines. hope they are going to bloom again.
damn, i have a great job.
