Garden Journal Brantford, ON, Canada 2007 Zone 5

2007 Brantford, Ontario. Canada Zone 5

This Journal will depict my efforts during 2007. Most of the journal will be pictures, and for reference here is the 2006 effort.

http://23april2006.notlong.com/ 23 April 2006

http://27may2006.notlong.com/ 27 May 2006

http://3june2006.notlong.com/ 3 June 2006

http://2july2006.notlong.com/ 2 July 2006

http://24august2006.notlong.com/ 24 August 2006

http://4october2006.notlong.com/ 4 October 2006

The 0.4 acre garden is located in Brampton, Ontario in Zone 5. This is my fourth year gardening on this property. It was covered in grass and the soil is heavy clay of fairly good quality, but poorly drained. The property was a wet mess after any heavy rain.The first year I put in drainage pipe across and down the yard for about 300 feet all by hand alone.

This is URL to my friends property. I assisted due to my previous experience. http://20april2006.notlong.com/ This ditch is about 18 inches deep with gravel in the bottom and plastic 5 inch weeping pipe on top then covered in gravel and sod. Now all the surface water is run to the street storm sewers. The sod was removed with my kick sod cutter, and then the sod was replaced.My garden area enlarged is about 1500 square feet was a clay swisshy mess.

The city supplies free of charge during the month of May about a half a yard of screened vegetable compost per day. Quality 100%. I built a half yard box in my minivan, and took a 20 km round trip daily for about 75 days over the last three years. I eventually put about 45 cubic yards of compost in the garden. Now I drop a seed in the ground and it grows and grows and grows.Durgan.