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Thursday, September 28 View Page
After last year I decided a few changes were in store if I wanted to truly be competitive. So I decided to take my 2nd year of growing to redo my patch. My entire yard has a pretty good slope. I began by removing all my existing topsoil.
 
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Next I leveled out an expanded my original patch.
 
Thursday, September 28 View Page
I then put all the previously removed topsoil back on. Then I added 16 ton of new topsoil, 6 yds of compost, and 4 yds of sand. After tilling everything in, the patch was planted with Mighty Mustard.
 
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The mustard is doing great. I'm hoping to till it in and plant a rye/vetch crop in the next few weeks.
 
Thursday, September 28 View Page
Although I didn't officially grow I did start a few seeds from last year which got planted in my field pumpkin patch and allowed to grow wild.
 
Thursday, September 28 View Page
Ended up with 4 respectable kins. The biggest measuring a little over 600#!!! The 2 pretty ones on the straw bales were grown from seeds out my 1306.5 from last season. With all the work which went into my patch I can't wait till next spring!!! Next year it's game on!!!
 

 

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