Oh yum. I made this salad last night from thinned out seedlings and I must say it was delish. two kinds of lettuce, tatsoi, and teeny tiny French Breakfast radishes. We ate it with a sweet ginger honey poppyseed dressing and oh boy was it goood! Our first taste of the freshness from our new raised beds.
Who is Dr. Doo? He is the ringmaster of the Woodland Park Zoo's compost program here in Seattle. Every year they hold a drawing to see which lucky Seattlites have the privilege of purchasing for a very reasonable price premium composted exotic animal manure ( Zoo Doo) and mulch ( Bed Spread ). We won! A truckload of each! But, the window of opportunity to get it was very small so we ended up only collecting the Doo and we will get the Bed Spread in the fall. So here we were with Bobbie sitting full of Doo and not enough places to put it. So my dream of a new bed came true this year.
I laid out a hose in the curve that I wanted the bed and scored it with a shovel. Then I scored the entire space to be cleared into shovel width lengths so it would be easier for Husband to muscle out. I dream of someday renting a sod cutter which I dream would make the process of removing sod easier. Someday.
Husband rocked this out like a champ and I took the rolls of sod and placed them in the area in front of our raised beds that was just bare dirt. It was hot sweaty work but it got done and we shoveled the Doo out of Bobbie ( a relief to her creaking shocks ) and forked it into the new bed. I have decided that this will become our Pie Patch and have plans to relocate a bunch of raspberries that are creeping into our yard from the neighbors yard and get some blueberry bushes and a Rhubarb plant. Yum! Hopefully it will be ripping in time for Opening Day of Pie Season next year.
