If there was a town called Bountiful- and I am guessing there is- I would probably want to live there- or start my own town and name it Bountiful as well. We would all have goats, chickens and greenhouses as well as large gardens and no cars- only goat carts and bikes.....
In March, using plastic sheeting, PVC piping, brackets and 2 X 4 we built a hoop house. We moved the chickens in there for about 2 weeks and they did a brilliant job. Next, my husband spent ages plowing in some little extras to build up the 2 feet of top soil that was our backyard- the topsoil that could not grow grass no matter how hard we tried. He even rented a tiny little Mantis to get the good stuff in there really thoroughly. Then, meticulously, per his Virgo style, he sifted all of the rocks out using a homemade dirt sifter he had built.
He can be the most patient man in the world (let's hope he reads this post :-)
And then, in April, we placed the tiny little sprouting starts of tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peas, kale, chard, salad green and squash in the ground. The children had carefully put the seeds into our little dirt pellets that had swelled up with water and waited.
They grew and when they were about 2 inches tall, we put them in the ground of the greenhouse and crossed our fingers and waited to see what would happen.
Excited, we showed friends who came to visit our greenhouse. On a 50 degree day in April, it was 100 degrees in there and we basked-- just a bit-- in the warmth. People did wonder why we didn't cram more things into the greenhouse, until we
showed them last weekend what had happened.
The tomatoes measured 5 foot 4 inches last weekend, this weekend which we don't have photos of, they are over 5 feet 6 inches and laden with green fruit. The cucumbers, zuccini, chard, lucinado kale, sweet peas
and salad mix are all in and overly abundant...
Amazing............
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