The Great Replanting of 2009
On Friday my man and his friend filled about 14 15″ black plastic gardening pots with beautiful compost soil from the bottom of a 15-year-old horse farm manure pile. The dirt is brown and lovely and rich and doesn’t smell nasty at all.
So yesterday I fulfilled my womanly duties by mixing the new soil with about 1 shovel full of peat moss per 15″ bucket load and a sprinkling of perlite. I then repotted everything. I do mean everything. All ten tomatoes went into their own 14″ pots. All 8 peppers went into their own 12″ pots. My flowers got repotted, as did the herbs. Celery was removed from the herb flower bed and put into 12″ pots in pairs, as was the green onion. after that I had so much energy left over (read: sarcasm) that I filled a 15″ pot with cucumber seeds, another one with more onion sets, and another with the zucchini sprouts that had sprung up in the in-ground garden bed.
My back would probably have been fine had I not lifted the full 14″ pots across the yard and back again. Surprisingly, my legs and arms are not sore at all. Used, yes, but not sore. Yoga and step class must really be paying off!
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