My garden has been abandoned for the last few years and it is time to bring it back to life. Yesterday I got my load of mushroom compost/bed mix and another 5 yards of bark for my paths. I am debating about how to handle the beds which have compacted/settled and gotten a nice bed of grass growing in them. My thought is to flip all the sod in place and add about 8 inches of new soil. I have the beds covered with card board to keep the grass from taking off.
I am a zone 7-8 at 2500’ elevation. We just started having 70-80* days here after a really wet winter. It looks like we are skipping spring and going straight to summer but we could also get a hard frost or even more snow. Mountains are weird.
If this is the beginning of spring we could have an amazing growing season this year. It might be worth putting out some early starts just to try to catch the wave early. Are you a gambler or do you wait until after your last average frost to put out things like tomatoes?
I was hoping to get in some spring greens but if it is going to be in the mid-eighties, they might not like it.
How’s your patch?
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Tomatoes, peppers, rhubarb, flowers, and greens.
This year I made an insulated little shack for my plants to hide in on freezing nights. It was 15 here just a few days ago, 86 tomorrow. I’m also trying to make all my tables into flood tables to make watering easier.
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just planted carrots 4 days ago. my garlic is up from my xmas planting.
parsley made the winter and is growing well. chives in with it are going
now also.
then got some artichoke seedlings up. 1 cabbage and 2 tobacco up. basking under 1k MH.
got melons and onion seeds just planted indoors. then some borage and carnations.
have my potato’s chitting in window. that’s it i think so far.
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No pics yet but just cleaned out the back yard. Gonna plant vines on the edges of my deck to run up lines like at a vineyard for some natural cover from the neighbors. Not sure how that’ll work out but i’m excited to see. Waiting til there’s more light to bring plants out so I don’t flower them immediately but it’s gonna be stuffed back there this year.
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That’s like the opposite here. Winter is when we grow these massive parsley bushes then in the summer they typically are too big to move by that time; they get waterlogged and eventually die around sept.
We usually replant around October and 2x - 3.50$ plants usually last the whole year for our entire neighborhood. Most of the neighbors grab fresh herbs off our porch.
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Have you tried Morning Glory vines?
Very nice. What’s your zone? I love parsley.
