Potato Trenches in Open Raised Beds

Potato Trenches in Open Raised Beds

by | May 18, 2020 | CobraHead, Garden Tools, Gardening, Vegetable Growing

I plant my potatoes in trenches which I make with my old five-tined cultivating hoe.  I loosen the soil with the cultivator and scoop it out of the trench with a flat spade. Potato Trenches It doesn’t take long to make trenches about eight inches deep and eight inches wide. Planted Potato Seed I run a row of seed 12 inches apart on one side of the trench and a row on the opposite side, offset 6 inches. This year I planted five varieties, 2.5 pounds of each...

Layered Compost Pile

by | Oct 10, 2016 | CobraHead, Garden Tools, Gardening

It looks like a pile of straw, but it’s really a very structured compost pile. I built it over the weekend. It’s layered and there is actually not that much straw in it. My raw ingredients included a pile of two seasons worth of garden debris – weeds, stalks, trimmings and anything else organic collected around the yard and garden that was not super woody. It was mostly already broken down and partially composted. I had a completely broken down 55...

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