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| The corn grows higher each day. |
Nope couldn't do it. I couldn't pluck out those beautiful corn plants and let them wither and die. Each seed I planted had sprouted. I owe that not only to the rich soil, but also to waiting until the weather warmed. Today was the day I had to decide what to do. My decision was to transplanted the crowded plants make my rows longer !
I followed these easy steps to transplant them:
- I watered the plants and soil for easy removal.
- I dug a new hole 8-12" from the last corn plant
- carefully cut down into the soil about 5" around the corn plant for transfer
- gently lifted the corn plant out of the ground supporting it with my hand trowel/shovel
- carefully placed the corn plant in the hole
- put soil around the plant
- tamped down the soil a bit
- watered the soil around the transplanted corn and blessed it.
Every scoop of soil I dug had families of earthworms, little babies to adult size. And thankfully they all came out whole. I laid them to the side and they quickly returned to the earth. That lasagna or layering method of composting I tried last autumn/early winter, has turned that clay into moist rich nutrient laden soil that the earthworms love. You ought to try this. It is a game changer. Gardening is a breeze with good soil. Here is the link for that post, Winter Layers For My Garden
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| DeborahMoonMoen of Little Utah Farm |
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