And so, it begins!

[dragonlaurel]

Some raised beds may work easier with that soil situation. Fill them with old leaves, mowed grass and any barnyard droppings you can get. They'll turn into great soil. You cold use piled rocks around the edges of the bed if the place is that rocky.

Some people also lay down bags of soil, poke some drainage holes on one side, then pop seeds or transplants in holes in the bag. The plastic wont be good much past the season, but it's a fast start. Growing in pots works for lots of veggies too.

 

[Denim Deb]

I was going to suggest the same thing.

 

[lwheelr]

I've always been really bad at growing in pots, and it is pretty expensive to do. The climate is really hot, so posts dry out very fast.

There is a garden plot, probably 20X20, and two more around the same size that were used for gardens at one time, all with bad soil. Bad soil is easier to work with than no soil - but that is still only part of the garden area we need.

I'm not going to bother building raised beds there - we will be there temporarily only. We'll be looking for our own place, north, and east of there, where there IS soil. So I just have to find enough space to get by with until we can move again.

Good idea on the leaves though... There are trees on the property that we can salvage some old leaves from, to work into the garden patches along with the bunny poo.

No grass to mow yet, and probably not any even after it starts to grow. Every bit is needed for grazing, and we have to be careful about which resources we use, since the property is in probate, and we are living there as caretakers at the discretion of about five different parties.