~SUSTAINABLE LIVING FOR CHALLENGING TIMES

[sumisu]

>My garden beds are plagued with poor soil, too many rocks, and roots from prior trees. It has taken me three season in attacking two new garden beds, first with intense roto tilling and more recently by hand, inch by inch.

During the autumn season, I pile leaves on the garden beds, run the mulching lawn mower over them, then roto till the leaf fragments into the ground, followed by the spreading of limestone.

Last spring I was elated when a cutworm wiped out a tomato plant in an area which was devoid of all life.

Next spring I will be adding fifteen 15-gallon containers. Container gardening for my peppers is better than planting them in the soil.

You are doing a lot of reading!

Eddie