songbird wrote:
Terry Coombs wrote:
...
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

Mmmm , I don't think smothering is going to work on this one . This is
ground that not too long ago was hardwood forest . The trees were cut before
we got it 11 years ago , an oval clearing roughly 75' X 200' . It currently
has some wild grasses and mostly blackberries on it . I tilled up part of it
last year , and the results were *VERY* encouraging . The part closest to
the trees on the uphill side weren't so much , but plants farther out into
the clearing were amazing . I'll be doubling the size this year . And
tilling the hay from the henhouse into the part I broke last year , after
it's aged a bit . I'm really excited about this year !
--
Snag