Virginia and I were out to Elkus today for about 4 hours. We cleared all the wood chips out of all beds where tomatoes had been and also the upper basil bed, then we spread the cover crop seed, raked it in, added fresh straw which Leslie kindly gave us, and watered it all in. Then we tackled the raspberry bed. We had to stop before we got all the roots out, but we got a real good start. We actually needed a pickax, which luckily Virginia brought, to get the larger "trunks" out.
We'll continue to work on the raspberry bed in the next couple weeks and will solarize it as we discussed, like the other one, as soon as we can get it completely prepared. I'm going to buy some more plastic for that purpose.
On another subject: did anyone see the Home/Garden section of the Chron from 11/24? Its cover story is really interesting, about perennial vegetables. There are three "exotic" root vegies I had never heard of.."oca", "yacon"and "mashua" all Andean, which I would really like to try at Elkus if others agree. We could plant the oca like the potatoes we're planning, vertically if we want, and if they are a success we can introduce them to the public along with our potatoes at the tasting day. The mashua apparently needs a trellis, and the yacon gets pretty big...we could talk about trying those if we have the room. Let me know what people think. According to the paper, these are all easy to grow and to propate the following year also. Sources for seed are given. It's all mail order, so we should decide soon if we want to get some. See what you think. Thanks,
Charlene
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I think trying some of these is a good idea. I like the idea of doing oca and potatoes.
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