I didn't have work for the Census Bureau today and I'm on leave from Bass Pro Shops until Sep 17 so I took advantage of this time to work in the garden, I took all the tomato vines out of one bed (So, yes, we are having fried green tomatoes at supper tonight.), chopped them up and threw them in the compost pile. Then I dug up the whole bed to loosen up the soil and and mix straw into it. About 6 inches down it was very compacted so it really needed to be broken up; and the straw should help with water retention. Then I transplanted six basil plants from various places in the garden to the north 1/5 of the bed. In the remaining part of the bed I transplanted onions we started in a 2'x1' pot back in March. There were hundreds of them in the pot, all totally root bound. I separated them transplanted the biggest 40, gave some to the Indian woman who showed me how to grow garlic a couple of years ago, and some to the HOA's landscaper to take home and put in his garden. What was left over went in the compost pile.
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