The Garden Stretcher At Work

GoDawgs · March 27, 2020

Never let a good piece of ground go to waste.

It's getting busy around here. Spring has busted out for sure. The Yellow Menace (pine pollen) is everywhere, coating cars, grass and slow dogs. The local wisteria and azaleas are blooming. The woods line across the pasture has taken on that faint spring green tinge of baby leaves pushing out while the pecans and oaks are pollinating, ready to drop dingle dangles everywhere and carpet the place with them.

I've been working on digging out a bed for the Jerusalem artichokes, a place where they'll be contained. There's a gravel filled area where a single wide trailer used to be decades ago. Some of the area has already been reclaimed for gardening but I've been prepping another 3' wide strip just for the artichokes. I have started filling the bed with used potting soil from last year's big tomato buckets and will finish that today so I can plant. It will probably need more soil than I have. The tree will be cut down. It's a fire blight magnet.

I've got three each of collards and kale planted down on the end with deer netting over them. The rest of the weedy area will be tilled for two okra beds and pole beans on a trellis. Various squashes grew there last year.

The gravel that was dug out was relocated to build up low areas in the driveway where water settles after a rain. Lots of little trips to keep each load light enough for me to be able to manually dump the cart.

Pickles dug out the Knockout roses and is going to make two new beds, one for flowers and one for blueberries. The new Mantis tiller should make short work of removing the grass and fluffing up the soil.

In other areas of the garden, the second bed of peas and another half row of turnips have been sown but aren’t up yet. However the carrots are starting to pop up. And the third set of three broccoli plants are in, leaving one more set to plant in about ten days.

IT'S SOOOO GOOD TO BE ABLE TO POST AGAIN!

March 27, 2020	#1
GoDawgs Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: Augusta area, Georgia, 8a/7b Posts: 1,685	The Garden Stretcher At Work Never let a good piece of ground go to waste. It's getting busy around here. Spring has busted out for sure. The Yellow Menace (pine pollen) is everywhere, coating cars, grass and slow dogs. The local wisteria and azaleas are blooming. The woods line across the pasture has taken on that faint spring green tinge of baby leaves pushing out while the pecans and oaks are pollinating, ready to drop dingle dangles everywhere and carpet the place with them. I've been working on digging out a bed for the Jerusalem artichokes, a place where they'll be contained. There's a gravel filled area where a single wide trailer used to be decades ago. Some of the area has already been reclaimed for gardening but I've been prepping another 3' wide strip just for the artichokes. I have started filling the bed with used potting soil from last year's big tomato buckets and will finish that today so I can plant. It will probably need more soil than I have. The tree will be cut down. It's a fire blight magnet. I've got three each of collards and kale planted down on the end with deer netting over them. The rest of the weedy area will be tilled for two okra beds and pole beans on a trellis. Various squashes grew there last year. The gravel that was dug out was relocated to build up low areas in the driveway where water settles after a rain. Lots of little trips to keep each load light enough for me to be able to manually dump the cart. Pickles dug out the Knockout roses and is going to make two new beds, one for flowers and one for blueberries. The new Mantis tiller should make short work of removing the grass and fluffing up the soil. In other areas of the garden, the second bed of peas and another half row of turnips have been sown but aren’t up yet. However the carrots are starting to pop up. And the third set of three broccoli plants are in, leaving one more set to plant in about ten days. IT'S SOOOO GOOD TO BE ABLE TO POST AGAIN!