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"Edge Gardening" by Diana Wayland

Now that the drought is over, I looked back on it for a year, and the results proved that, most importantly, it was in dilapidated condition.

Not all of this is due to my husband's obsession with fries! I bought more seed cakes this year than ever before.

Our regular customers are Sharpe's Express and Kestrel. Although it is too early, I consider these as the main crops only because we have low summer temperatures and short seasons. They are usually reliable.

However, this year I bought six kilograms! Usually I get four! Maybe I know something? To this end, I added two "guest" patties-four kilograms of Sarpo Mira and two kilograms of Maxine, both of which are the main crop patties.

In mid-April, when my left wrist fractured, they had a good conversation. At the beginning of the gardening season, being left-handed was a total disaster, but in the end it was a blessing.

Due to the inability to use my hands, our usual vegetable crop range has never been sown. My husband planted our onions, green onions that have grown in the greenhouse, and about a hundred leeks that we planted in late March.

Under my guidance, he planted some greenhouse vegetables, but due to the continuous suppression of temperature in summer, they sprouted poorly and did not grow well.

After adding iron sulfate to lower the pH, my poor husband planted a pile of crumbs on almost every bed in Kelid.

This year we also conducted experiments by using old wood pellet cat litter. After carefully removing any solid matter, my husband tilted it, spread it out and processed it. Plant it a few days later to reduce the possibility of it burning any new growth.

efficient! Despite the drought and our frank intermittent watering, the buds appeared, healthy and full of vitality, and continued to grow very well. We started harvesting Kestrel in early September and were very satisfied with the results-the right size (several large ones), little or no scabs, no pests, and high yields. Sharpe' Express has less revenue. It tends to.

But what shocked us was Sabomera. This is a long red rag. The size of some of them is huge! A tuber weighing more than half a kilogram can (almost but not exactly!) let us both have a meal. The yield is also very high.

I will definitely buy this variety again!

Maxine's performance was not satisfactory. These have a little scab, none of them are big, and the yield is not high. But these beds come from unused cat litter, even though we used iron sulfate before planting.

So cat litter obviously makes a difference.

Due to our current inexhaustible supply, this method has been applied to all kalyard beds throughout the winter. I emphasize that due to the risk of toxoplasmosis, all poop must be removed, but it is much better to use it to add much-needed organic matter than to send it all to a landfill.

We only switched to wood pellets earlier this year and found that it is much better than what we used before, which we will never be able to do.

Honestly, what I cannot answer is whether the cat urine here is also part of the reason for the superb simplicity we have this year.

Or my husband planted...?