Getting started gardening

[seedcorn]

It's not too late, you can plant cold weather crops as cabbage, cauliflour, broccoli, turnips, etc. There are other things that you can try.

Till it up now, if it's clay, use chicken manure, bed it down with straw (keeps weed down and gives you valuable mulch to soften up the clay.

 

[erinm]

Thare is alot of info lately about tilling refrain. I am trying that for next year. The earth builds the soil top down so all the good stuff ideally at the top. Tilling kills the worms. so yhis year I am loading n the soil with all the compost pile and the coop litter. leaving it and digging with a shovel in the plot areas in the spring. less worm kill and the rest should be nice and loose for planting. I read this in" Eat more Dirt"
Last year my hub put sevin all over my garden. I used miracle grow blah blah and I was not impressed with the fruits of my labor. this year I went completely oraganic and have veges coming out of my ears. And less pest problem also! Stronger plants are more resistant. the more chemoicals used the less resistant theyare. I swear the bugs do not like the healthier plants. I sed DE ( careful it will kill worms also, just a little on top of the plants, I try tp keep it off the ground and hot pepper spray sometimes k-neem. All of these have worked for me this yaer. It encourages me to make a bigger garden next year! And I have pumpkins this year i almost gave up with pumpkins but i got them coming this year! erin m
I also have bees galore and that is a goooooood thing. plenty of big bumbles and i saw plenty of native honeys also unless someone has a colony around here but i do not know anyonw who is in beekeeping near me. erinm

 

[erinm]

Agility you could do a small test plot this year. get a bag of manure or 2 and make a small plot to try radish see what you get! it would be fun! erinm

 

[wegotchickens]

I'm going to try that baggie sprouting idea I saw on the seedshare web side. That looked pretty cool!

My beds have black widow spiders in them this year. They run when they see me, and I know they eat pests, but they're making messy webs all over my plants and its gross (and scary) to try and harvest stuff. Think scattering DE on the webs will kill the widows?