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Thanks for posting that. I'm experimenting with putting tomatoes in different places in the garden, and hoping to find out what does best where.

DH had some time and he and his worker came by and removed my leaf mountain so I can plant my Hopi corn. :yesss: The cottonwood leaves are alkaline and so is our soil, so I can only put a small amount in the compost at a time. Mowed the lawn earlier this week and put a thin layer on the...

Trench 1 is done and backfilled with amended soil. Now off to do trench 2.

Nice! I love figs. There's supposed to be a hardy one that does well here. Think I'm going to look up the local grower and see what he has. I just picked up 2 cherry tomatoes for my arch - yellow pear and sun gold. For some reason I forgot to start any cherry tomatoes this year!

Planted some radishes - white hailstone and french breakfast. Got some nasturtiums planted, and a few of my tomatoes. Still haven't figured out where I'm going to put everything, I really need to make a plot plan! Oh, and I saw earthworms! Big deal for me since I'm reclaiming the garden...

Rained off and on yesterday and today, which was sorely needed. Cold front comes through tonight, and hoping it will be the last freeze of the season. Hope to start transplanting soon!

Hi everyone, I'm working on securing the panels for my fence and arch. Supposed to have a freeze this weekend, so the only thing in the garden is garlic. So excited to be gardening again since it lay fallow last year as I'm converting to no-till, and organic matter is a bit scarce around here.

Thank you for posting that link, LG. I usually purchase the pre filled borax-based ant baits, but this looks better and much more economical.

The ones down the street are doing the same thing. :(

I'm trying not to till and only have about an inch over the cardboard (OK, an inch is pushing it.) Might toss some alfalfa seeds on top and see what happens. If my wood chips come, I'll just bury whatever sprouts are growing. Can't hurt, right?

I haven't been successful in finding lots of organic materials for my garden, so I'm really glad I used cardboard for a bottom later. May have to let most of the garden lie fallow for a year until I can get wood chips or until the lawn starts growing so I can use grass clippings to build the...

That's great Bee! We don't get that much snow do I absolutely love it when it happens. It's mostly gone now, so later I'll try to cover the strip where I ran out of cardboard with the new feed sacks I emptied yesterday.

Right now, I'm just watching the snow melt in the garden... It's pretty.

That will be great to see LG! I'm getting a slow start, with only a few inches built up so far: Peat moss, grass clippings, alfalfa,& compost. There are elm trees all along our back fence, but they haven't dropped many leaves yet. Hope to keep adding until I can get some wood chips in the...

I think many people in the South and East parts of the country have acidic soils, so lime can come in handy to raise the pH. Here in the SouthWest, we have little rainfall and alkaline soils, so I try to avoid things that will make it worse - lime, ashes, and the leaves on this list...

Thanks for the info, I'll definitely look into it more. I have to say they are doing great in the run, but since it is so dry out there the leaves tend to just turn into leaf chips although they are breaking down better where I have the soaker hose. Oooh rabbits sound like a great idea, but DH...

I'd like to experiment with a no-till garden next year but am having trouble locating enough organic matter to get things started. Over the last few days, I covered one section of the garden with newspaper, then chipped leaves/grass from mowing the lawn, then peat moss. It's pretty thin, but...

Thanks, I'm impressed they grew too because this is my first year here and first time attempting carrots. All I did was keep the weeds away. LOL, mine too. Had a hard time getting them out because they were locked in the ground in the silt. Still need massive amounts of organic matter in my...

Harvesting the last of the goodies and prepping for spring.

Picked my lonely sugar baby watermelon today along with a Charentais melon. Will have them tonight in a fruit salad! Also picked the rest of the Lemon Cucumbers. Some were over-ripe so the chickens are enjoying them. Pulled some second crop bolted cilantro for the chickens as well. They...