After two years of drought Joyce told herself unless we got decent moisture this winter she wasn’t going to bother with a garden this summer. Without some help from Mother Nature it is just too hard to get things to grow you see. Well that’s easy to say in August or September but then comes along a mild winter day to undermine one’s resolve.
So, yesterday we fired up the chipper and finished the garden cleanup started some weeks ago. It’s unusual to have that chore done this early. I want to redo the rows by replacing the metal edging with 2X8 treated lumber. Last winter we made the mistake of letting the chickens in the garden. We could have hardly done otherwise since we didn’t have it fenced off. It was a treat for the chickens but they scratched a lot of the dirt out over metal edging which sort of defeated it’s purpose. Also, the edging has a tendency to get pushed out by the dirt and in places it lays so flat it doesn’t keep the dirt in or the grass out. Continue reading “Garden: To have or not to have”
Garden: To have or not to have
by rakeeter