If it makes you feel any better, I have some potato seeds ready to go out. They'll be going in buckets rather then in the garden... and they way they are looking, I'll have them out in about 2 weeks at most. Last year I planted at the end of Feb and they did fine.
You can always count on your potatoes to come through!
Great! I'm more optimistic now that my potatoes will make it in bucket/can now.
I've still got to fence off a section of my raised-bed garden to utilize it before spring. When all that went down last year, my surprise pregnancy and resulting abandonment of all thing vegetables, my garden was a mess; weedy, overgrown jungle mess. Then my husband had a brainstorm. He moved a couple of beds to the side, rolled our Henspa chicken tractor into the fenced area, cleaned out anything bad for the chickens, threw a net over the whole thing and let 'em have it! They love their new spacious digs and have cleaned up my beds pristinely. Not a weed in sight and some great fertilization going on .
So until we get our barn built and adjoining chicken coop off of it (dang you, economy), I have to share with the hens. Having to really pare my vegetable selections down as a result of my now limited beds (down to four of my original nine). Wonder if I could do my strawberry tower in a bed within their enclosure and put chicken wire around it...hmmm. They're so wiley about food, I don't know if that would be smart though.
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