I created the triangle bed on September 1, 2013 as an extension of the C Bed, which I had already filled to capacity with food plants.
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It wasn't possible simply to pull the grass out of the dirt, so I shoveled up whole clumps of dirt with the grass and put them in a wheelbarrow. Over the next day or so, I broke up the clumps with my hands and separated the dirt from the grass. The dirt went back to the bed, and the grass went to a pile in the backyard nook.
I bought some vetch seeds at Wabash Feed and Garden and sowed them in the triangle bed. I got some kind of obvious bean seedling, which might have been Persian silk tree, as well as more grassy-looking seedlings, which might have been the vetch. At the time, I didn't investigate what the vetch seedlings were supposed to look like.
By September 16, 2013, I had put a sweet basil transplant in the northwest corner of the bed.
On October 28, 2013, the basil had grown a bit, and rain had smoothed out the dirt clumps in the bed. Some of the vetch had grown a few inches, and some opportunistic plants had moved in.
On January 12, 2914, I connected the triangle bed to the C bed, thus creating the S bed.
