It's that time of year again, the rain is falling and the weather is starting to warm up. Thus the RHS Sustag team is making steps in preparation for re-planting the beds. We have recently harvested the remaining compost crops, predominately bell beans. We are redistributing nutrients of the plant(s) by composting the stalks, and leaving the nitrogen fixed roots in the soil. We are also repairing the soil structure of overgrown beads. Our groups were assigned beds to weed. We used hula hoe to remove the majority of low lying grasses, and then used the sickle to cut through thick grasses. We then contributed this to the compost pile, as long as what we had harvested was not invasive. Then we u-bared the beds mixing in compost. This aerated the soil and re-established soil structure. Prior to preparation of the beds, seedlings were being grown in flats to transplant. The types of crops that are currently sprouting are conventional spring crops: largely leafy greens, herbs, root crops, as well as cold weather beans. When the rain starts to subside, the soil will be dry enough to dig and plant with out compressing the soil structure or crushing the root systems. We have cautiously prepared our beds to provide conditions for optimal growth, so lets get planting!
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