Gearing up for the 2007 garden
I was so happy to see on a local garden store website that it’s time to start plants from seed. I’ve wasted no time buying them.
Watermelon, chocolate cherry sunflowers, marigolds, brandywine tomatoes, cucumbers, scarlet runner beans, torpedo onions, sugar pumpkins (for the front yard) and atlantic giant pumpkins. This year I hope to be more organized and have my own starts ready so I don’t have to buy any.
I found a copy of Rodale’s “Feed Your Soil” booklet, which gives wonderful discussions of how to improve your soil. One technique I’m trying now is crimson clover cover crop.
Now that it’s getting warmer, the clover is growing much faster. I’m hoping it will be as good as adding compost. The bricks are to block the hole the rabbits dug to get into the restricted clover feasting area. I pulled weeds out of it today and gave those to them - such good little weed eaters.
