Saturday, November 5, 2011

Video of community garden clean up

I created a video of the garden clean up day. The content is self-explanatory. Except for Uncle Max

I decided to amend our beds this autumn and let the soil mature over winter. My co-worker not only offered aged horse manure, but also to bag and deliver it to work! My neighbor burns wood and gave me a bag of ash. And we planned to top the beds off with compost from a huge pile at work.

After cleaning out plant material and removing this summer's hay mulch, I started to spread a light layer of ash across the beds.
As I sprinkled the ash Jay said, "There goes Uncle Max." One of the weeding parties was within earshot and my friend LeeAnn looked up and remarked, "Uncle Max? Should't we say a prayer or something?" Oh my did we have a giggle at that, and after playing it up a bit, we fessed up that the ash came from a tree.

Not to let another opportunity go, as we started to spread out the horse manure, Jay said, "There goes Bessie." By now we were verging on sacrilege, and LeeAnn played along and asked, "Bessie?"
Thanks Jay and LeeAnn for the laughs, you can see the smiles on our faces, they didn't go away for quite some time.

The following is a small version of the video, but due to text in the video, it's best watched on YouTube.




2 comments:

  1. Nice photobombing, Jay! Exactly how long did the "performance art" take to accomplish? That required some patience.

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  2. Oh, and one more thing. You should test the soil before adding ash next year. Most soil in this area of the state is already very alkaline and ashes can increase alkalinity to a suboptimal point.

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