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Well after a long spell of taken it easy, I am ready to get back to playing in the dirt. Cleaned all the seed starting equipment up last night, got my shelves cleaned off, went through and picked out all of the seeds for my tomatoes and peppers this year. I did change a few things for this years garden. The biggest change will be the lay-out. I started off in 2018 doing long rows (upwards of over 100' sometimes) but last year, i did short rows, (25') just more of them. It seemed like the garden was easier to take care of. It might have just been in my head, but the garden was half its normal size, and i got just as much as usual out of it 
. Anyway, today I am weeding the asparagus bed, and putting down some fresh mulch. I ran the tiller through the tomato/pepper garden yesterday, I want to put some lime down, and later some grade A 100% organic chicken poop Lol. It is very wet around here right now so playing in the big garden is a huge risk, but I've got enough room in the barn, I'm going to get started on my lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers and few other starts.
I know last year i didn't have the trouble keeping everything watered like I have in the past, but I still want to look at some type of irrigation other than sprinklers. Not sure what yet but I'll come up with something. I'm moving a lot of things around this year, so nothing will look the same, but hopefully it will work out. I'm shooting for ease of access not only for equipment, but for labor and harvesting. Since the rows will be shorter, everything is going to get mulched in with hay this year. 1 to aid in holding moisture and B to help with weeds. Since i do till the soil weeds are always an issue, this will be a trial, if it doesn't work oh well i'll try something different next year. Here's is to a bountiful 2020 garden season!
. Anyway, today I am weeding the asparagus bed, and putting down some fresh mulch. I ran the tiller through the tomato/pepper garden yesterday, I want to put some lime down, and later some grade A 100% organic chicken poop Lol. It is very wet around here right now so playing in the big garden is a huge risk, but I've got enough room in the barn, I'm going to get started on my lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers and few other starts. I know last year i didn't have the trouble keeping everything watered like I have in the past, but I still want to look at some type of irrigation other than sprinklers. Not sure what yet but I'll come up with something. I'm moving a lot of things around this year, so nothing will look the same, but hopefully it will work out. I'm shooting for ease of access not only for equipment, but for labor and harvesting. Since the rows will be shorter, everything is going to get mulched in with hay this year. 1 to aid in holding moisture and B to help with weeds. Since i do till the soil weeds are always an issue, this will be a trial, if it doesn't work oh well i'll try something different next year. Here's is to a bountiful 2020 garden season!
