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Hello everyone, here is Omran the farmer from Bagdad KY.
Come on in and plant your seeds with me,let us plant a very big O garden this spring 
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Hi omran! I just found this thread! I'm in Columbia, south central KY. I have been swapping seeds like a crazy person over on BYC, and I'm thinking I'll have my hands full this season! I have like 3 different types of watermelon, cantaloupe (only 1 that I know of right off!), 3 different pumkin, 5 or 6 different squash (I think), plus the usual beans (blue lake bush), cukes, eggplant, tomatoes (7 or 8 of those, I think), onion, carrot, broccoli, cauliflower, radish, lettuce (only iceberg 
), cabbage, oh yeah! and sweet corn! 
Plus I am getting some peanuts, pomegranate, and blueberries, oops, forgot about my strawberries! 
And this is all not even counting the flower seeds! Oops, forgot my bell peppers too! Did I mention that I might have went a bit overboard on seeds? 
Oops, forgot about the 4 different types of sunflowers! I'm not sure if those are considered a flower or a garden veggie? Like the 'which came first' kinda thing on that one 
But sunflowers are fun, and the silly finches eat all the seeds anyway. I need to cover at least one of each this time, so I don't have to buy any next year! 
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Hi guys! I am so happy to have found you via BYC! I am looking forward to spending more time composting and digging in the dirt now that I'm retired...good to see you fellow Kentuckians!
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Hi! I have been off for most of the winter but I just saw your posts. I am originally from Ft. Thomas KY and moved to North Carolina a few years ago. I miss the black Kentucky dirt but I love the longer growing season down here!
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WV neighbor here... 
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Hi all, I'm in southern KY. Hoping to get my garden plowed soon, a neighbor came down a few weeks ago with his tractor and disc, but he did such an awful job that I still can't work it I tried digging the parts that he missed (most of it it seems) with a shovel and hoe, but I just can't do it all. Last year was so wet, by the time the ground was dried enough to plow it, it was too late in the season. I was hoping to get this garden started last month so I could plant cold crops (spinach, brocolli, lettuce, etc.), but that didn't happen. Now I'm hoping I can get it done soon enough that I can plant the rest of it
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Even if it comes down to bringing in some strawbales, spreading them as mulch, and planting pumpkins and winter squash -- you may still make a start at a garden, Friend2Fowl.
The mulch may be all you need to get that ground usable by next year. That's optimistic but possible. Whatever the case, it sounds like your ground would be much easier to work in the fall. Pull the mulch off and cultivate after your first killing frost.
Winter squash is something good to have for months on end. Halloween can be more fun with a few jack o' lanterns to carve and you may even find a local market for pumpkins in October.
The only things I can remember growing in my first garden were Kentucky Wonder green beans and turnips. Maybe there was something else but that's all I remember 
. I have no idea why I chose turnips unless it was to feed my rabbits. That's what the turnips went to, anyway - the rabbits 
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Steve
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