garden

Okay, here's my experience with it:

I burnt some wood and threw water on it and gathered charcoal and repeated until I had a bunch. I had a heck of a time grinding it up small. I tried putting it between two plywood sheets and driving over it, and that didn't work for crap, and I don't even know what else I tried. Pounding it with a big metal thing in a drywall bucket. Nothing worked well, it was very very annoying getting it small and fine enough.

Today I excavated the pile of sticks and poles that is part of my tomato support system. If you imagine the stump in my plot, the sticks and poles are in a heap on and around the stump.

First I cleared out a bunch of old weeds and branches I’ve been throwing on the pile for the past 6 months. Then I slowly untangled each stick and pole from itself and from the weeds growing around them. Last year I did not use the full system, I did some weird angular madness based on central poles, along with traditional tomato cages. 

Today I went on my lunch break and picked up some plants for my garden.

I was going to plant them after work and take a picture of them in the ground, but it took so long, there was no light left to get the photo. 

Then I was going to try to just draw a diagram, I fought with some diagramming software, then I said, "this is dumb, I can draw a picture", and by the time I drew the picture and annnotated it, it still didn't look great. So I decided to just explain what's going on with words.