The next garden bed is going in.
This one is a 4×2 raised bed that I’m setting up specifically for root vegetables. The plan is carrots, beets, parsnips, radishes, turnips, and some of the stranger old vegetables I’ve somehow accumulated since this whole thing started.
Most importantly, this is where the skirret is going.
Skirret is an old root vegetable that was once commonly grown and eaten in Europe but mostly disappeared from modern gardens. I ordered actual skirret roots to plant rather than starting it from seed, and apparently these things are not cheap.
Fortunately, I already had a pile of good soil left over from filling the main garden bed. Instead of buying even more dirt—which would apparently violate my new tradition of going to Home Depot every fifteen minutes—I moved the existing pile into the new bed.
And by “moved the pile,” I mean moved an entire pile of dirt by hand, because gardening continues to be an excellent way of disguising manual labor as a hobby.
Once it’s filled and ready, this will be the dedicated root bed. The deeper, loose soil should give everything plenty of room to grow downward without having to compete with the Brussels sprouts and everything else going into the main bed.
So now I have a main garden bed and a dedicated root-vegetable bed.
Remember when I was just going to grow some greens?