First Partial Tilling of the Season

Like every season I always do a partial tilling for my cold weather plants like spinach and lettuce.  I will do a full tilling later on in the season around May or late April depending on the weather.

Today was windy but still warm enough to get some work done in the garden.  I am hoping to plant all or the majority of my spinach tomorrow if I have enough time.  I have about 22 plants and that should take only a couple of hours to complete.

I would say that it took me a few hours to till enough of the garden to fit all my spinach plants for the moment.  I am not worried about tilling too much because the entire garden will eventually be torn up and that just means less for me to do later on.

I also removed the barrier that surrounds this part of the garden because I also wanted to till up this part to get rid of the roots that were beginning to grow through the barrier.  I like to start fresh in the start of every season.

I wanted to mention some perennial flowers that I have outside that are coming back.  My feverfew is usually the very first plant to start turning green all the way back in early to late February.  They seem to be doing quite well and have marked off a couple that I will use during the season.  I will have to remember not to till over it in May.

I have a special kind of alyssum that flowers only one time per year, but it comes back each season.  I prefer the annual types because they flower all year round which I need and is more beneficial.  Every flower that I can grow definitely helps.

The last one that is actually an annual plant is my cilantro.  I usually grow them every season from seed, but I guess some seeds sprouted during late Winter to early Spring.  This can happen quite often with annual seeds, but it just means less work for me.

I got my onion bulbs today as well and I am hoping that once I get my spinach done I will then begin working on my onions.  I do need to do some clean up in the onion section of the garden and in the totes that I use every season for them.