Went to a free soil talk one of the longtime garden members runs by the toolshed, and one part of it hasn’t left my head.
She was talking about resting a bed between plantings, how an empty bed looks behind but it’s actually doing a different job for a while, not falling behind at all.
Kept thinking about that because it lines up with everything else right now, classes piling up, shifts running long, bedtime sliding later every week, plus that background hum of worrying I’m losing ground on routines I worked hard for. Guess I’ve been treating slower weeks exactly like an empty garden bed!
A few things she mentioned for an actual resting bed:
– turn the compost in instead of letting it sit
– mulch the bare soil so it isn’t eroding
– mark the bed so you don’t toss seeds in out of habit
Leaving one of my beds alone for the rest of this stretch and seeing what it looks like when I come back to it.