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RE: STATUS OF OUR STASH and READY TO HOBITIZE, #fff
Hey, @thebigsweed.
That's quite the production you got there. I really like the beds that are off the ground. It just seems like they would easier to weed and take care of. Do you rake through it? I usually till ours up but that would be possible with that, at least not with a larger tiller. :)
I guess you still are trying to get out of winter, but we're trying to wait out the rains. Had some flooding around the area—nothing really near us, but it took my wife 2 hours to make a 15 minute commute a few days ago to get to work.
Rate things are going, it will be May again before we're able to do much. You kind of pick your spots when the rains stop and the sun comes out. So far, that's not today. :)
The raised beds do save the back. We don't till the beds that are in the boxes. What we do is take one of the side boards off of every box and empty most of the dirt from each one. We then till all of the dirt at once and then refill the boxes. It takes about a day to complete this, but saves so much time down the road.
Another advantage to combining all of the dirt, and then tilling it is that eliminates the need to rotate the crops.
The raised boxes for the carrots are about 6 inches deeper than the other boxes, and were built to give the carrots plenty of room to grow.
It will probably be another couple of weeks before we can plant the cold weather vegetables and at least another 4 weeks before the remainder of the veggies can be planted.
Winter doesn't seem to want to take a break, this morning it is 28 degrees.
We have our seed potatoes chitting already and are ready to go, but it is suggested that they not be planted until the ground reaches 45 degrees. the ground is no longer frozen, but the night time temperatures are still too cold.
Happy gardening and I hope it stops raining by you guys.