preparing the second raised bed for blueberries

this raised bed has had lots of stuff dumped into it. i started two years ago with rocks at the bottom.


then i dumped in bucketfuls of weeds.


added shredded leaves from fall two years ago.


but after winter the shredded leaves sunk down nearly a foot.


and continued to sink/decompose


broken up sticks were added. and more shredded leaves from last year.


my stick pile was already 3 feet tall


but i had two wagonloads full of more sticks. the old maple and the ash tree drop lots of dead shit. i didnt want to haul it all to the county dump site for vegetation, so i broke the sticks up and dumped them in the raised bed. they'll break down eventually.


still had a good foot of shredded leaves on top of them from last fall (and a ton more below them from the fall before that).


shredded leaves, and bags of pine bark mulch. which is supposed to break down and help acidify the soil.


4 bags of mulch doesnt go very far. the mulch is also because blueberries like really loose soil. or so my brother told me.


4 enormous bags of peat moss, each bag was 2 cu. ft. but the raised bed is 12' x 4' so 8 cu. ft. doesnt go that far either. peat moss is supposed to help acidify the soil. there is also a big bag of sulfur mixed in there.