Craig, Diana and Boogie movin' some mulch
The more you learn about gardening, the more you come to appreciate mulch. It puts the kabosh on weeds, helps to keep your plant’s roots evenly hydrated, and encourages earthworms, Mother Nature’s rototillers. I haven’t seen many earthworms since I arrived, so I’m hoping that a nice layer of mulch will encourage them.
Here at Camp Ballibay, we’ve got 1000 sq.feet of beds and some wide weedy pathways between the beds that are in need of mulch. This afternoon the garden team, Craig and Diana, along with Julia who works in the kitchen but loves gardening, hopped into the camp’s big pick up truck for an adventure into town to get some mulch.
We were able to find a garden center that loaded “two scoops” of plain cedar mulch into the bed of our pickup. We got it back to camp without losing any along the way. Our real work was getting all of that mulch out of the darn truck! Fortunately, when we returned to camp, Boogie a camp counselor/blues guitarist from New Orleans, offered to help shovel the mulch out of the truck. It took loads of shoveling, but we got it all out of the truck and into the garden area.
Next step will be getting all that mulch into the garden pathways and around the plants. Don’t know if we’ve got enough for the whole garden, but we certainly have enough to keep us busy for a while. Will earthworms arrive once the mulch is keeping things cool, moist and weed free? Will we run out of mulch before we run out of garden beds? Stay tuned for the ongoing saga!
