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After I posted, it hit me that I can just experiment. I am planning to start my kale indoors this weekend anyway, so I am just going to try a few seeds in the Home Depot soil and a few in soil recommended by a local nursery and see if there is much difference. Plenty of time to switch gears...

My local Home Depot has Dr. earth planting mix for six dollars for one and a half cubic ft.³. This seems like an insanely good deal. Am I missing something? Can I use this for my seed starting?

I did end up buying catnip seeds, for precisely this purpose. :D

@majorcatfish Here’s where the bulk of the herbs will be located—the 8'x4' area from the bottom of the stairs to the downspout. We’ll plant some extra basil and put the mint container in the area on the other side of the downspout as well.

According to everything I've read and the class I took on composting, piles that are 140 or higher for a week or so will kill the seeds. Is that not the case? My piles were all in the 145-160 range for at least a month.

It's not an ordinance. It's the HOA's rule. Chickens are legal here. I have friends inside Greensboro city limits who have had them for years. The issue--I'm willing to bet--is that I live in a nice suburban area that was just developed 20-25 years ago in a part of town that used to be...

Updates... The 60ish garlic plants I mentioned earlier are coming in like gangbusters now. It makes me hopeful that the work I did on composting and ph adjustment is paying off. Speaking of compost, I just used a little in each hole I dug for garlic and left the piles in tact back in November...

At the bottom of the stairs coming down from the deck (pictured from far away in post #39 of this thread) there's a 4x8 space and then a little extra around the corner. My wife wants me to put the bulk of the herbs there so she doesn't have to go down to the big garden every time she wants a...

Do you mean like a physical table, or are you talking about a list of dates to plant stuff and expected germination dates? If the former, no, but I think I know what I'm going to do. If the latter, it's in progress.

@ninnymary High space?

Yeah...I hope I'm not overshooting. Thyme--I think I failed to mention that I grew it last year and never even harvested it--another one that we just don't use that much.

Oh yeah..definitely not doing a cover crop this year. I'll let my leaves and compost suffice for soil improvement. (Well, and I'm thinking of buying a thousand or so earthworms..) I'm going inexpensive on the tiller--electric. This one gets ridiculously high reviews and is said to be...

Here are a few more pics to give better perspective on the entirety of the garden/yard. The first was taken from the deck this week, and gives a good feel for the mulch, straw, and composting areas as they are currently. The second is from the back corner of the yard looking up toward the house...

OK. The plan isn't fully complete yet, but I thought I'd show the work in progress, as it's fairly close. A few comments for clarification... If you've seen the pics, you know that my garden space is long and narrow--93 feet long, and an average of about 16 feet wide. As a result, I've split...

Actually I'm growing a moderate number of a lot of things. Unless some things produce much more than I'd expect, I don't intend to can/freeze much. Having extra would be a good problem to have. Cross that bridge when we come to it. Yeah, weeds drove me nutso last year. Over winter, I'm mulching...

I need to work every angle I can. I'll give it a shot.

Heh. For now, I want to make sure I am actually willing to do the work to plant the area I have mapped out. It's probably triple the amount I did last year. Give a brutha some time to grow his garden, eh??? :D

Yeah, this jibes with the vibe I've gotten from them in our brief interactions so far via FB Messenger. Given this information, combined with the fact that per Google Maps they're only 20 minutes from my house, it seems like a no-brainer that I'll buy from them.

@baymule Thanks for all the info there! Much appreciated. No need to shut up!

No worries, @Zeedman! I appreciate the info even if it wasn't what I was looking for right now. I will, however, store it away for this coming gardening season.