Hey everyone! Today is a very exciting day on the farm because I am breaking ground on our new big market garden.
So I haven’t really announced this yet this year, so here it is. I am going to be growing produce for sale in addition to our poultry products, so I am very excited to branch into this.
How to Till up the Garden
Last year I had a big, big garden for our personal use, but now I’m going to be tilling up some new land so that we can have a much bigger garden so that you guys can enjoy some of Square Root Farms fresh veggies this summer too.
And today, I’m just going to show you a little bit of the process of how I’m taking grass sod and turning it into our new garden.
So first I began by marking off our garden plots. This garden will be 50ft by 64ft, and I’m going to have two of them.
I started by measuring and marking and squaring everything off. It’s important to take the time to measure and remeasure as your beds, irrigation, landscape fabric, everything will be based off this outline. Being precise at this stage will really help save time later on.
Now today, I’m going to be taking out our new Land Pride Tiller with our little baby Kubota tractor and tilling up some ground. Hopefully this works. I’ve never actually done this before, turning bare ground like this into a garden bed, so we shall see.
Once I made my first pass tilling up the ground, I waited to let it sit for 2 or 3 days, and then I came back out and tilled again. I just needed to let the soil dry out a little bit, let it settle so that it wasn’t so clumpy. And I am super pleased with how well this is going.
When Tilling Up your Garden Look Out for Tree Roots
I did run into one problem and that was tree roots. I had a couple trees in here that I had cut down earlier this spring, but there were some roots close to the surface, so I had been digging and chopping and sawing those things out of there.
Other than that minor hiccup, we had some garden beds behind us and I’m really excited.
Once You’re Done Tilling, Add Fertilizer
With a little bit of compost and some azomite, which is just a rock dust that’s high in trace minerals, I think this will grow some really good food this summer
So thanks for following along. The garden is in progress and I will keep you up to date. Till next time
