Peas and beans and Barley grow....

Peas and beans and Barley grow....

Well I hope they will now that finally I have some good earth. My kind Grandson Mike made good on his Christmas day promise that he would go and get me a truck load of good compost and topsoil mix and he delivered it today just in time for planting new veggies. Thanks also to his Dad for letting him borrow the family pick up. This was a very necessary item to have and one which we don't have.

As a bonus Grandson Mike helped fill up the new beds with the new soil as well and so we only now have a baby mountain of soil to contend with, After all we are still working on the chip mountain at the other end of the garden!!

Previous to this we had been trying to grow veggies in either our hard type /slate /clay mix of Texas soil with a generous combination of either leaf mold or bags of rather dubious topsoil that we had struggled home with in plastic bags. Some of that was pure gray sand.

Now everyone knows to get good garden growth you need good soil and we just don't have it here. We are in the Cross Timbers part of Texas and we have very nice trees but the soil is poor.

The raised beds filled with new soil

This late present is a blessing indeed as Mike and I were trying to figure out how many bags from the garden store we would need to fill the new raised beds Mike had just made.  
The thought of carrying them home and getting them in the beds was very daunting.

So why do any of this.? Just taste the difference between a super market veggie like a potato and a home grown one and you will soon know why.

Plus every year it is a challenge and that's good for you.