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Cutting Potatoes and Placing them in Rows in the Garden

Now that it is the middle of April and soil is no longer frozen it is time to till part of the garden and add some cool spring crops. Three things were added to the garden yesterday. These include seed potatoes, peas, and radishes. These three crops are always sown directly into the garden and are not normally transplanted from pots or containers. I will probably start adding my spinach and lettuce plants into the garden next. These crops were grown indoors first and they have been outside for quite some time and are just about ready to be transplanted.

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Spinach Harvesting and Tilling Garden

It has been a little while since my last post, but I promise that I will not go that long without writing an update again.  This month is getting a little busy and being behind at least a couple weeks I will have to get my garden going as quickly as possible.

I first started with picking spinach leaves at the beginning of the week with most of my plants producing large leaves.  This season I wanted to grow them longer before I started cutting the leaves and it definitely was worth it. (more…)

Finished Tilling the Garden and More Spinach Harvesting

It has been a little while since I last made a post, but it has been quite busy nevertheless.  First of all I finally completed tilling the garden this evening and it took quite a few days to do this.  It took much longer than usual and that was mostly because I was picking up many large rocks in the garden while I was tilling.  This took some time to do.

I was hoping to be completed by last week and start planting many of my plants into the ground.  That way this week all I would have to do is begin planting seeds that are sown into the ground directly.  This includes corn, beans, and carrots. (more…)

Tilling Garden, Weeding Blueberries and Spinach, and Mulching Onions

It has been quite a long time since I wrote a post on my blog and since then it has been a busy week for gardening.  With the weather getting much warmer and all my plants are enjoying the outside weather it was time to get started with tilling the garden.

I usually start tilling when the weather gets consistently warmer and usually is in the beginning of May.  It all depends mainly on the weather especially if there has been much rain.  I don’t like to till when the ground is too wet and is better to wait for the soil to dry a little bit.  A moist layered soil is fine conditions for proper tilling.  Take a look at these pictures of my tilled garden. (more…)