After dropping my son off at preschool I headed over to the Natural Gardener to figure out my options for nitrogen.  I love that place, the people there are so knowledgeable and *helpful.*  I never feel awkward asking stupid questions.

I ended up getting some cottonseed meal.  8lbs just about covered my front garden, so I tilled it in with my hand tiller (gave myself a blister) and watered heavily.  I'm going to keep spraying fish emulsion weekly since the nitrogen in the cottonseed meal won't be bioavailable for a while.

I also spread gypsum up in the corner of my yard that I hope to grow quinoa in this summer.  I'll give it a couple weeks to work before I go attempt to move dirt.  There's a huge pile of rocks there that needs to get moved too.  It's going to be a backbreaking project, but I'm going to make it my first double-dug bed.  I'll have to cut down a chinaberry sapling and a lugustrom to get that area some decent sun.  I have no mercy for the invasive trees.

I also spread gypsum and worked in 5gal of compost along my retaining wall to plant a Butterfly Bush.  Hopefully it'll get big enough to hide those ugly railroad ties.  The purple sages are holding their own, but don't look like they've grown much recently.

Both that bed and my fence-line pole beans got a good dose of fish emulsion and seaweed emulsion.  It's a beautiful day for working in the garden.  Cloudy, 75, light breeze, a couple drops of rain here and there.