Started planting spring garden today with sweet corn and snow peas.
Did not touch the hoe today making the rows/beds.
The fellow I got my B112 from had a home build lister and hiller/bedder. I used the hiller today to layout my rows. It is not a elegant attachment but it still does a reasonable job of making rows down to 26" on center. Surely beats manning a hoe. Just wish it had a little larger sweeps.
Phil
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
A bit cruel posting that Phil! You know most of the rest of us are way off from such things. After I get back from KC next week, I'll likely go pick up about 40 or so broccoli plants, but that'll be all for a while. Corn is quite some time away for me.
Are you sitting down? I'm planting Tomatoes today....Early girls and Romas. They need to make before Summer sets in as they don't produce when the nighttime temps remain too high. I am going to plant them in 3 gal pots in sterile soil half submerged in the ground. I have had good success doing them that way but tried direct planting last year and the crop failed.
Phil
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
I don't have any snow or ice left but gardening is still more then a month away for me. Still got the thrower on the Big Ten and probably won't mount the tiller till second week of April. Most stuff won't get planted till late May when all chance of frost is gone.
Money can't buy you happiness. It can however buy you a beer. And that is close enough.
Actually in the Northeast, we've got 70 degree weather. Opened up the outside lounge, started doing outside work with the chain saw and rake. Nothing with the tractor yet.
Michael, it's going to come back and bite you yet. It is only March 20th. First day of spring. Still, I am looking forward to working up the garden also. Dave
Money can't buy you happiness. It can however buy you a beer. And that is close enough.
Here in Nothern Illinois I was tempted to get the tiller out. I declared winter over last weekend by taking the snow blower off. My garden drains pretty well and I have a nice layer of leaves over all of it right now, just waiting to till those leaves in!! But then last night the snow came thankfully it has melted on anything that warmed up in the last week, I could even see how the snow was melting on the nails in my front porch, the snow would stick on the wood but not above the nails :).
Thinking in the next couple of weeks on starting the tomatoes and other plants inside.
Dave, hopefully Spring will stay spung! I ended up pulling out the 3112H with chains and snow plow to back blade the garden free of dead plants. We'll leave it that way in case it does snow. Made one pile we'll load into a trailer and mulch/dump. Then pulled out the 1982 York Power Rake to work on and ended up raking the yard until I broke a yoke... So now I'm talking to a friend who welds to see if we can fix that. Otherwise, it was just one wonderful day in Connecticut (a very rare gorgous day for this time of year).
No gardening here! Here in west central Illinois is same as Carl said about up his way. Burned the dead grass along the road late this week, back garden looked promising for tilling even, then snow moved in. Mud hasn't been too bad around here, but WOW the frost boils in the gravel roads! Folks are saying the worst in decades, even some of the seal-cote roads are getting soft in places! Many people are getting stuck in their own driveways. But yet the neighbor has been using my hayfield for access to feed roundbales and has hardly left tracks most days!
Life is all about paying. Pay attention, or pay the consequences, the choice is yours. Rich
Today was still above 60 degrees, but felt colder due to some good winds. What a lucky weekend... they are predicting rain with a tiny chance of snow... I predict rain.
Today was still above 60 degrees, but felt colder do to some good winds.
It was cool today in the 40's but the wind gusting to 35-40 mph made working outside miserable. I was hoping for rain to water my gardening efforts from yesterday but it did not materialize so I had to water by hand. I spent a couple of hours today working on a project for a client only to have it blown off my work table by a powerful gust of wind destroying much of what I had accomplished.
Phil
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
Green Acre 2010
Posted - 03/19/2010 : 23:43:35
'Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!'
I don't have any snow or ice left but gardening is still more then a month away for me. Still got the thrower on the Big Ten and probably won't mount the tiller till second week of April. Most stuff won't get planted till late May when all chance of frost is gone.
Burned the dead grass along the road late this week, back garden looked promising for tilling even, then snow moved in.
Mud hasn't been too bad around here, but WOW the frost boils in the gravel roads! Folks are saying the worst in decades, even some of the seal-cote roads are getting soft in places! Many people are getting stuck in their own driveways.
I was hoping for rain to water my gardening efforts from yesterday but it did not materialize so I had to water by hand. I spent a couple of hours today working on a project for a client only to have it blown off my work table by a powerful gust of wind destroying much of what I had accomplished. 
This years seed is up and thriving. 
Sorry I couldn't provide today's paper? All I could find in trash. 