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grandpa Love

grandpa Love

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We bought some seeds yesterday. Kale, lettuce, broccoli and cauliflower. Also onions and garlic sets. Will be planting this weekend. Also starting the sweet potatoes in greenhouse. Everything this early goes in raised beds. Still a few weeks until we plow the garden..
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No gardening outside around here until around May. I have started some geranium seeds already as I'm hoping to have flowers by Memorial day. Remaining seeds like peppers and tomatoes I don't start until March.
 
I usually do not mess with those in the spring.
You get a late cold spell and it hurts the plants or it gets hot to early and you are fighting for a crop.
They do much better in the fall around here.

With a last frost date in the end of March it is about time for us to start tomato and pepper seeds.
 
Yep, even the Amish around here have figured that there is no way around the cold. I would not start any transplant before April.
 
why do you wait to plow before planting when the ground will work much better if it is plowed months before it needs to cure for a time.
 
Many plow in the fall and then again in the spring. Me I do not plow/till in the fall but I do put manure on in the winter then till in the spring
 
Important to fall till on heavy soils as apposed to light sandy soils where it may be better to leave it alone or even have a cover crop to combat wind and/or water erosion. Around here fall tillage can get undone on heavy soils with a couple hard spring rains followed by temps above 70 degrees which bakes the soil into hard clumps.
 
Down here we have weeds/grasses grow year around to some extent. Our temps have been in the 60's lately and probably low 70's next week. If you plow in the fall you just have to do it again in the spring or have a garden full of weeds.
 
All the old men who grew gardens successfully around me in central Mississippi while I was growing up always said; "A bad fall plowing is better than a good spring plowing".
 
Our soil gets to lumpy if trying to seed into spring plowing, fall plowing and a couple of trips over, with a shallow cultivator setting,it will be lump free and very mellow!
 
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