I really want to start planting a garden, but it's still too early and still a lot of prep work to do. This huge grassy area behind the house was a garden back when I was a teenager, but no more.
I had the idea that I would burn all my brush here instead of the random piles I've made all over the property. Should kill the grass and roots.
That would be a huge ass brush pile, so in this area I'm using plastic to kill the grass. Google tells me always use clear, black doesn't work very well. Google also tells me black works much better, clear not as good. Thanks Google. I've found one big roll of black and many rolls of clear, so I guess I'll know which works better in several weeks.
This area has been smothered with leaves since fall.
Garlic is looking good
I decided to make a bed for the onions we will grow. Have 160 sets plus a crapload of seeds started.
Onions prefer well drained, sandy soil. So I will plant them here in this wet, sticky, heavy, red clay.
Water standing in every shovel hole as I turned the dirt.
I turned a 3' x 15' area, added a thick layer of crumbly, half-rotted leaves, and topped off with several mules loads of forest dirt. Maybe the onions won't have wet feet.
Bonus pictures
This tree looks funny to me.
Proof it is too early to plant
Last week
Hail
Nick is upset. He went to feed Rick and Billy (the tree frogs), and found that Rick had passed away. We buried him in the yard.
"Here lies Rick, my frog"
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