Going on a Poop hunt!

So we are now at day 3 of our project... and I am off to find manure... Never thought I would find myself hunting for poop, but the hunt started bright and early, calling around to see who might have some in....

Well low and behold, Golden Acres has tons of Steer Manure... so off I go! But who can go and only pick up manure.. NOT me... I also picked up 4 tomato plants (2 roma's, 1 champion, 1 lemon boy) as the tomatoes we started by seed long ago, just don't seem like they are anywhere close to being ready to go outside, and don't want to be without any tomatoes. oh, and 3 more jalapeno plants and a cilantro... as somehow I forgot it when I was shopping for my herbs!

***About our tomato seedlings, they are so tiny... my recent research tells me, they weren't getting enough light! and being that they are Beef Steak Tomatoes, they are slower at everything as is... So only by a miracle will we actually get a tomato off of them... but whether we do or we don't, we have learn alot about starting plants by seed!***

So upon getting home, with my manure, I got right to work! The boys were at school, so I figured I may as well enjoy the great weather! I hand forked the garden bed, and worked in 100kg of manure... hope it is enough... I had NO clue how much to use. This was labour intensive! So I did the bed 1/4 at a time, and took a nice little breaks in between...

Not only may we get some yummy veggies... but I might actually miss place part of my butt in doing so!! Double whammy for me!

So I got all the manure worked in the bed ( the tomato/pepper plot, can wait as it is way to early yet to plant them in Calgary)... Now to measure it! what I thought was 10'x10' ended up being 12'x12 1/2' so a bit bigger then we figured! mmm more veggies!!!