All five beds, eight stackable potato towers and ten five gallon nursery pots ready for planting. A couple of nights below freezing forecast for this week, might get the seed potatoes in tomorrow and maybe garlic and onions but still have to wait for the rest. We’ve seen snow here as late as May 15. Gave the seedlings some real sun today and the digital thermometer on that bed was reading almost 108°F on account of the reflection off the house. The robust seedlings got a good three hours outside but the second string backups were a little overwhelmed after an hour and a half. 
Discussion
Wow, nice beds! Is that all cedar?
It’s just brown treated spruce. And I lined the beds with 4 layers of black poly so the copper sulphate won’t leach into the soil. The bottom third of each bed is filled with rotten straw, for drainage and soil cost savings. The growing medium is 5/6 ProMix and 1/6 compost. This is year two. Next project is a composting system but we are moving to an acreage as soon as possible so I’m trying not to go too crazy building, because everything has to move. This project started out of a desire to go into last winter with as much food preserved as possible. I pressure canned 100 quarts of produce and meat last fall, and between that, dehydrated goods, vacuum sealed items, store bought preps and hunting kills, we finally have about three months of emergency provisions. I’m really trying to be ready for the upcoming shitstorm the government is no doubt orchestrating as we speak.
The greatest part was I got to spend the whole day gardening while listening to nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a Broken Money on audio, which I was pleasantly surprised to find out was read by one of my other favourite people in the space nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev This book seriously needs to be in every high school curriculum. We would have a revolution within a generation.