Bells of the North Homestead

Today after a bit of work outside we decided to test our soil again.  Last year our soil quality was really miserable.  Only thing that would even grow in the yard was moss and slugs.  We planted a mixture of tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers and squash.  The squash never really produced much other than lots of flowers, which was neat anyways as I made fried squash blossoms with cheese inside.  Super yummy! Here's a link to a blog discussing how to make this yummy treat! The tomatoes only produced AFTER we had put them in large containers, which left the eggplants and cucumbers which were our star performers.  We were swimming in cucumbers which we loved thoroughly! So here are the results. PH has most definitely gone up dramatically!  Our soil last year was very acidic.  Now it's turned more alkaline.  Nitrogen is pretty low as is Phosphorous.  Potash is getting better now. To combat the Nitrogen and higher alkaline levels we plan to ...

PH Level is about 7.0/Nitrogen very low/Phosphorus Medium to High/Potash is Very Low to Low Game plan is to add some compost (with coffee in it), some commercial fertilizer, and bonemeal to add Potassium. Pictures following soon of the raised beds. We took some of the pallets apart. Well no, I shouldn't say WE, I should say Edward did. As he did that I did the boring but energy saving job(I've been really sick lately) of cataloging all our seeds as of now. Here's the list: Bell Pepper~Carnival Mix; Sweet Pepper Mix Bean~Italian Rose Broccoli Raab Cabbage Invento F1 Hybrid Cabbage Cucumber~National Pickling Cucumber; White Wonder; Lemon Cucumber Eggplant~Black Beauty Okra~Burgundy Onions~Evergreen Bunching Pea~Super Sugar Snap; Super Snappy; Oregon Sugar Pod II Pepper~Pinata Mix~Hot! Radish~Cherry Belle Salad~Arugula; Roquette Arugula; Slow Bolt Arugula; Wild Mesclun; Microgreens ...