On Friday July 18 2014, we planted the 15 plots at one house. Each plot was planted with corn and then a variety of melon, cucumber and summer squash.

Here you can see the preparation process 

 First a hole dug into the dirt. That breaker bar is necessary in nearly all the soil I work in for smashing compacted dirt and clay and prying out rocks.

 Loose soil mixed with compost or manure is returned to the hole and covered with a mulch.

A finished garden. 

By Thursday, July 24, cucurbit and corn seedlings were already showing through the leaf, grass and twig mulch. The lady of the house said that the seedlings had started to show that Tuesday, July 22, only four days after seeding.

2014 Recap

boys from the Libres por Amor center building a sunken garden plots

In February 2014 we started our Profuture gardening project on our biggest property to date at the Libres por Amor children's home.
While most of our gardens are quite small, 4 to 12 square meters, this project will eventually cover 110 square meters with around 200 small sunken planting plots (depending on how well the boys and I get our spacings).
At this time, trees are already planted and growing on the four corners of the garden and another four spaced out around the center of the garden. About 60 planting spots have already been finished and amended with manure or organic garbage. Chili and tomato plants will be set out by the end of April and faster growing crops of corn, beans and cucurbits (squash, melons, cucumbers, watermelons) will be planted at the start of the rains around the beginning of July.

a line of finished plots

 Meanwhile, our project in the Genaro Vazquez neighborhood continues to grow as existing gardening projects will be expanded to approximately double their previous area with sunken plot waffling.

a small waffle garden from 2013