Transplanting the Yacon

We have had so much rain this year.The Yacon can no longer live in a container.
It fell over and uprooted. So I prepared the area behind the potato garden. I will add a video. I took half the soil it was already in mixed it with 1/2 a bag of topsoil. Added some composted manure.Then planted this on top of the ground.This plant can not take much more confinement. Planting like this is a no dig way to let the plant grow at what level it wishes.All the roots high.Or it can shoot roots and tubers deep. We will see in Aug or Sept. When the plant decides it is time to harvest.

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No dig garden 1

My no dig topsoil garden
I will be gardening by the moon phases today I am doing a few red potatoes.
March 21 - 22 is Root Crops, example Horseradish, Sweet potato



I started by buying 30 bags of top soil bout $40.00 worth. I laid them double wide around one side of the garden. the photo to the right shows how you can put them in fount of your flowers and hide the bags with mulch later.
Then I cut an x in the bottom of the bag and flipped it over.

I cut an x and a square in the top and mixed in cow manure and peat moss. I place the potato 1 per a bag and pulled the plastic back up around it. so It will not be fully exposed to the elements. I will place mulch over the bags and a plastic hoop house to protect it from frost for now. I will show more tomorrow. as the 23 - 25 of march is Flower crops, e.g. beans, peas for moon gardening. I will plant broccoli . 4-6 seed per a bag.
You can grow most any thing that is not a deep root crop this way. Corn is one that need deeper roots. but if you work the dirt below the bag and open the split under the bag for the roots to go deeper any thing can be grown this way.

Planting by the Moon

Potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, parsnips, radishes and other root crops Moon in Taurus (best results) or moon in Capricorn (good results) Waning moon when moon is in Taurus or Capricorn

Have a wonderful day and remember to laugh and play.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw