Ecnerwal wrote:
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Peas, carrots, and spinach are in. We'll have some cold nights yet, but
the usual problem with those crops is too late, not too early. Can
replant if needed. Garlic went in last fall, but it was old garlic from
the season before, as the fall before last went to bleep in a
handbasket. We'll see if it does anything.

i've yet to manage to kill off all of the garlic.
years ago i was planting several hundred cloves, now
i'm down to 20-30 and that is plenty. i'm also
digging it out of one large garden so i will have
plenty of green garlic this spring when i get back
to that project.

looks like we got snowed on last night. yesterday
we had all the weather in one day, sunshine, rain,
hail, wind, thunder, lightning, snow. just another
early spring day.


Oh, how I hate creeping buttercup. And fighting the garden onto the next
and hopefully final grid/fence plan...

ha, there's always at least one weed to fight off.
in our case there are plenty. i just pick one garden
here or there a season to renovate. if i could get
rid of the remaining lawn/grassy areas that would
save me many hours of weeding a season that could go
into growing vegetables or dry beans or more flowers.

i think i finally talked Mom into smothering a few
gardens she's had where it is nothing but white
flowering yarrow. she can't weed it any more and she
has been mowing it down a few times a season, but that
bothers her a lot too. i wanted to turn them into
vegetable gardens, but before we can do that the yarrow
has to come out. smother it for a few years and it
will be ready for onions or something else.

good fences come in handy. good luck with the
projects...


songbird