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Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Gads Deer Park WA

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Ok, heres a picture of us tilling in the first half of our cover crop at our rental house in Olympia. We moved here in early July (new job with state capitol) and immediately began tilling up the back yard and adding LOTS of compost from our farm in Cheney WA(trucked over the Cascades 300 miles). Being the good punkin farmers we are I immediatly made friends with local ranchers and farmers and added about 2 yards of composted horse manure in august. Planted cover crop and took soil sample in January, I was suprised how well balanced the lab results came back! Only had to add Gypsum and a bit on Nitrogen! Only room for one plant this year, but which one....
 



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