I have lots of plant starts going in the house, but with the outdoor temps starting to climb into the 60's and staying mostly above freezing at night (we've been seeing lows in the upper 30's and lower 40's)… it's time and past time to start the cool season veggies.
The area in front of the compost bin, which gets a lot of sun right now, has been rototilled. We had the hens in the garden, and then spread compost, and I felt we needed to dig that into the top six inches of dirt.
I'm trying out some weed barrier cloth in between rows this year. The last couple of years, I've been fighting morning glory; this is the latest attempt to eradicate it without spraying Roundup in my vegetable garden.
The t-posts are there to support the row cloth that we'll use to cover the plants if we have temperatures below 30° in the forecast.
Some people cut or burn holes in their weed barrier to plant in, but I'm planting a lot of radishes, lettuce and kale as well as broccoli and cauliflower, and it would be all hole… so I'm just leaving a gap where my plants will be.
Now to fetch the drip line for watering. We tie it up on the fence for the winter. The first year, we left it on the ground, and ants built colonies in it… tying it up keeps them out.
The faucet attachment got a new filter.
I'm running the drip line all the way to the stable to the frost free faucet that is pressurized year round; the garden faucets won't be turned in until late April or May.
I've set it up so that every time the trough gets filled, the plants get water.
The water line is pinned to the ground with homemade garden stakes, cut from grape wire.
I reused a bunch of drip lines from the last few years' gardens, and just pulled the fittings apart and cut things to fit.
When I did the test run, I discovered that my emitters were throwing water onto my weed cloth!
I turned them all so that they are soaking the dirt now.
Almost ready to plant some radishes, lettuce and broccoli!
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