WR's 2018 Spring Garden

w_r_ranch

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This past week, I planted the green beans, soybeans & all the tomatoes, then tucked the Italian basil between the tomato plants. All that is left is the pepper plants (hopefully tomorrow).

Monday I'll order the 28 yards oh fine ground mulch (which I hope to have spread before the mid-April planting of the melon patch).
 
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Wow 28 yards that a lot of bark to spread. I take it you have a tractor then,Still a lot of raking though. Do you just till it in after garden season?
 

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we're getting a fresh blanket of snow today. lol will be weeks before planting. nice to have others down south getting going so i can at least garden vicariously... :) been awake since 4am. i hate waking up early. Mom said she spilled water all over her bathroom. usually i don't hear her. then she was drinking her morning coffee and said she almost dumped that down her front too. gonna be one of those days? :) will be out shovelling later once it gets closer to time for her to head out. a little snow won't stop the card club gals from playing...

go w_r! go! and good luck.

also, thanks for the key to the planting chart, i was glad to learn that the leaning people were really soybean plants... :)
 

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Wow 28 yards that a lot of bark to spread. I take it you have a tractor then,Still a lot of raking though. Do you just till it in after garden season?

While I do have a tractor, it is unusable in the garden as it raised walls. I do use a 10 cu. ft. wheelbarrow & a hay fork though... The mulch is applied 3-4" thick which cuts the time spent weeding immensely & irrigating.

By the following spring, 3/4s of it will have broken down. It is then tilled into the soil prior to planting. Then I repeat the process again. This builds the texture of the garden soil which is important to root development & production. It is labor intensive & somewhat expensive, however the benefits make it worth it.

Here are a couple of pictures from a few years ago...

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