Got my garden worked up

I am so confused by your weather, Bill. I am in SE Virginia and no one is doing anything here yet. I would have assumed you are much colder than we are??? Are you actually planting?

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nope, I just took the push plow and 5 schovel weeder and worked up the ground. TODAY< I went through and picked up grass clumps I had, for the most part worked up the other day. I was going to work it up again Sat, but my boy is going to be out here to make up hyd hoses, so ill do it again crossways from the direction I went the first time.

Mine is a little wet to work it yet I plowed and planted wheat cover crop last fall been spreading wood ashes and manure on it this winter going to spread somelime on a good dry day and disc it gold before planting

Welcome to our desert garden! A yo-yo. Saturday it was 65F, Sunday it was 70F and sunny and clear. The fruit trees and roses think it's time to wake up, but NO oh no, not yet dear ones.

We will still get a cold snap, or three, and since we have not had late spring frosts for 2 years in a row (resulting by the way in fruit for the first time from peach, apricot and nectarine), I am thinking we will this year. So it will get to overnight lows of anywhere between 10-25F. No point planting anything here yet. Often, we don't really get most things into the ground (except for peas), until April.

I would love to do a no-till but DH loves his tractor too much. It's pure joy for him to plow up the garden and I wouldn't take that from him. He works so very hard, plus the 2-hour a day commute. He deserves to play with that tractor on the weekends.

I understands how he feels. Im likely not going to farm this year, in hopes of moving, and ill miss it. Even at 67

67, it was only 37 here today

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Got lettuce coming up now and strawberry plants are greening up.

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Got mine worked up yesterday----told if it didn't produce better beets I'd sling sludge on it. Mentioned it wouldn't be composted sludge and got really worked up.

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Our garden is lying there just waiting for us to use the tiller again. It's blanket of rotten alfalfa and cow manure hiding it's explosive growing power! Sounds good, don't it? Can't wait!!!

PBoy I ment at 67yrs old

I got two of my raised beds layered today. First time gardening!

1. Newspaper/cardboard
2. Peat humus
3. Leaves
4. Manure/Compost mix
5. Leaves
6. Potting soil

I watered the leaves down between layers because they were cracklin' dry. Covered beds in black garden sheeting and anticipate planting my seedling sprouts in late April.

Please feel free to point out any mistakes I've made here before I start layering the other 2 beds tomorrow. SO NERVOUS!!

Thanks in advance :-)

I'm in Arkansas, Ozarks area. It was 60° today!

The air may be 60 degrees but the ground is still frozen!

Signs right and ill work mine up again tomorrow. IF its hotter than it was today, Ill be doing it shirtless.