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Don't you think carving it in stone would be overdoing it?

In a sense. I used cardboard under woodchips for the first garden area, but this one is my dry garden. It's quite large, solarizing the whole thing would be cost prohibitive, even in sections.

I was going to focus on eliminating Canada Thistle and morning glory this year, but it looks like other weeds will take precedence. Specifically weeds that have thorns which require heavy gloves.

Yep

R ROFL Rooster taste test. If you like the flavor, keep it. If you don't like the flavor, try the next.

If you are in the garden then gardening has been done.

Sunny, windy, cold. I blocked the Senior chickees from the garden. They still found a way in, but at least they laid in the coop again. The chicks like to sleep in the nesting boxes, and for some odd reason the Elders stopped trying to evict them. Pure exhaustion, likely.

I am seriously considering automatic doors for the coops. I would need a turkey door, though.

Most planting will have to wait until next week. But today I got some tomatoes in, and the rest go in on Wednesday. If it doesn't rain tonight I'll need to water everything tomorrow, which is a pain. In my experience the best way to guarantee sun is to plant something that needs water. Even...

Clover is already planted in another area and I'm working on replacing the grass with flax, oats and wheat. Ground covers in this area probably won't be planted until next spring, when the woodchips will have started to break down. Nasturium and sweet potatoes around the edge this year, I...

Tired. I started building the chickees food forest this week. Not sure what I'm going to plant in it yet. Deep woodchip mulch and logs for a boundary. It needs to be designed to provide them 4 season fruit and shelter. I was thinking Nanking cherries, wild plums, marigolds, maybe nasturtium...

All the better when Daddy comes home.

It was bright and sunny here, right up until an hour before totality. Then cleared up within half an hour. Somebody has a sense of humor.

Hehehe. I have a nice, steady 20 mph wind blowing. Last week it was 50+.

I watch my 6 week old chicks and wonder which is going to blow away first.

I am sitting on my porch, the wind is blowing, I just finished lunch, not a cloud in the sky. Just finished my second round of indoor planting, this time herbs and black solanum. A good day.

They have bare root stuff out...

I needed to get one specific item at Tractor Supply. It's dangerous to walk in there at this time of year. At least I wasn't attacked by rabid chicks, but the feral plants are worse.

Good night, sleep tight, wake up to chickees when it's light.

I see no stars, but the wind seems to have stopped. The chickees will be happy about that.