Terry Coombs wrote:
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But any way you cut it , now is the time to be starting seeds for
transplanting later . So far I have onions , 2 kinds of 'maters 2 more I
picked up seeds for today kale , lettuce , cauliflower , eggplants and
cayenne peppers in the starter trays . And they're all sitting on a low
table right in front of a southeast facing window where they get strong sun
all morning then great indirect light the rest of the day . I guess it's
time to get the tiller out and make sure it runs well . I'll be enlarging
the garden plot this year , after a great first year garden and that machine
has some seroius groundbreaking to do .

so much easier to smother it and retain most of
the existing soil structure...

(we've not had a good tilling vs. smothering thread
in a while have we? )

or if you'd like to cut down on how much time you
do spend tilling, plot out the garden rows so that
you are only tilling the slices where you will be
actually planting and leave the rest to be smothered.
most tillers will let you remove blades so that you
can till thinner slices.


songbird