Adventures is Organic Gardening : Southern Illinois :-)

Well Friends, I do like to provide content and I am finding that I don't Tik-Tok, Facebook and never ever Twittered. Somehow I became an old person while I wasn't looking. You know it just happens.. Technology moves on without me and yet I do the Spock and talk to A.I.s' now.. Go figure.

 So here I am on this site. It is a forum like I know. I started out when people had to call each other and connect to their home computer s together using a 300 baud modem to post messages to each other on what was called a "BBS" or Bulletin Board System. It's a comfortable old brown shoe to me. 

 Now that I have dated myself, and yes I am a cheep date, I think it will be enjoyable to share what I do and hopefully learn some new things. It's been a while for outdoor growing for me however my indoor has impressive lol!

 So, I moved to Southern Illinois from Central Valley California and oh my the Culture shock is something.

My town back there had 100k people in it and The County well over a million people but here the whole County is around fifty thousand.

Along with the quiet here, there is the small town social structure. I'm not doing all that well with that. I mean no one where I came from wants to waste time with other people's business because they have their own lives in a sea of lives but out here what one does seems to spread like passing gas. Oh well it was where I could afford to own a house. fuhgeddaboudit with the pipe dream of affordable housing in California. One could buy a small parcel of land thirty miles from the nearest Utility pole and dig hole and build an outhouse, then take pictures of the view of the foothills from every angle from in and around that outhouse and then someone would pay $300k for it. It's insane expensive for working people having lived on wages all their lives to hope to own a house anymore out there

 So if you need a place to get old in and one day not need to worry about breathing well, Southern Illinois has land and houses on the cheap but I digress.

 On to the Organic soil pic of the day my fellow Organic Soil enthusiasts!

It is a brand new plot as far as I can tell. It appears to be clay soil mostly however I tend to think it leans towards loam in parts.

Now this is the first chance I have had to have an actual in the ground garden in nearly thirty years so I am so loving this.

As we all agree so far Organic Soil is the thing! The soil food web is our divine goddess in my opinion.

So the only free resource of organic material around here is lot-grass. I have some lot-grass and the neighbors have like a half acre that I just mowed for them and I have had ten heaping truck loads of dry grass I am working with for this go-round. Not bad. And there is more yet to come.

 I also am hoping the local tree service will start dumping their shreds here but I digress.

This morning I will go back to my modern day mule and plow. The Rototiller. And to BragIa bit  have a bad mamma-jamma one. It tires me out every time.

And First there is a Mountain..

Donovan and that cool garden song about rototiller-ing in a mountain of dry grass. How cool..

Anyway :

And the joy of mixing in organic material pics...

So there it is and off I go.. It will get a bit warmer later today so the cool of the Morning is like the very best part of the day in the green green land Of Southern Illinois.

Until nexts post.. Happy Gardening and feed them worms too!