The STP and the SFG

As promised, here is the Square Foot Garden garden update.  Following the guide of the Square Foot Garden book.  Remember the amazing STP built the raised bed.  Complete with little decorative corners.  You can review that process here.  And then I began a search for vermiculite.  The Co-op guy is still working on this one.  I did find small bags of too fine vermiculite at the not-quite-a-stuff-mart here in Dodge City.  If the garden does not grow, it will be the Co-op guy's fault.  

To start we mixed three bags of compost.  (Because even though the STP built me a compost bin, you can not make good compost in three days.) 

Then we added almost equal parts of pseudo substitute vermiculite and peat moss.   

And used the tarp rolling method to mix it all together.

The STP was instrumental in hauling, mixing, and shoveling.   (This was key, because I was busy documenting our progress and reading the book, and telling him what to do next.)  Here he is filling the box.

The raised bed full of SFG wonder dirt. 

Next we used twine to divide the Square Foot Garden into Square Feet.

And then we planted the carefully chosen crops.

Two cherry tomato plants.  One pumpkin.  One miniature rhubarb (I don't think it is supposed to be a miniature, that's just how it's turned out so far.).  Four Walla Walla onions.  Two sweet peppers and two jalapeno peppers.  (At this point we can't remember which are which, but when they get peppers, we will know.)  Two square feet of lettuce.  Basil.  Cilantro. Four marigolds. And carrots.

The STP's hunting mentor told me I should not calculate the price per pound for mule deer steaks.  Likewise, we will not calculate the price per pound for cherry tomatoes.  But just remember, these are totally organic cherry tomatoes.  Watered with pure Wyoming rain water.