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sweet corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, string beans, onions, turnips, peas, cress, and mustard salad.
Does he look to the moon signs to better his luck?
“I don’t do that; I just plant when I get my ground ready.”
He used to plant his potatoes in March but doesn’t anymore. “The frost might get ’em.”
Why does Cave garden?
“It beats sitting around.”
The Rappahannock News also spoke with Maurice Herndon of Sperryville about his raised bed garden.
In all, Herndon has 14 separate garden beds, each of which is framed by pressure treated lumber to prevent rotting. Each bed is 4 feet wide, 10 inches high and either 8 or 20 feet long.
Herndon resorts to these less traditional gardening tactics because his land is rocky and unlevel. “These garden beds adapt to land that ordinarily would be useless,” he said. “I can put a raised bed garden anywhere.”
Why?
“Because you don’t dig in the . ground, you put them on the ground.”
Herndon said the mjyor advantage of raised bed gardening is his ability to control the environment. He creates his own dirt out of sandy loamT’ wood chips, dolomite lime and well-rotted cow manure.
Also, since the beds are elevated and framed by wood, his crops can’t be washed out by excessive rain.
Why else does Herndon love his raised bed gardening system? “This is as near to a lazy man’s garden as you can find; it eliminates the heavy work.”
If you don’t believe him, he will promptly prove to you how he can weed and harvest while sitting down. Then he will look up and smile.
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