Got the garden Plowed

[Kalam]

Let's say - in my family it used to be like this: in the fall we harvested the garden and that was it. Come spring, the plowing begins. It`s necessary to have time before planting potatoes. But I felt that something was wrong. First of all, the weeds just appeared, every year the grass grows and grows. That`s horror ! So I realized that additional plowing in the spring is just necessary! Also, I also enjoy decorating my vegetable garden. What, for example, do you use? I found and bought Best Yard Torches. It looks especially cool and atmospheric in the evening.

 

[chieffan]

I have always plowed the garden in the fall. When the weeds started in the spring it got sprayed to kill it off. Run over it once with the tiller on the GT, then final till just before planting. Soon as the crops come up, light tilling only if it needs it then the Preen goes down to keep the weeds from taking over. Decoration is the crops growing and blooming.

 

[Cvans]

Yep turn the garden over in the fall and work it up in the spring. Works for me.

 

[Propane1]

Yep turn the garden over in the fall and work it up in the spring. Works for me.

Same here.

Noel

 

[4getgto]

Yep turn the garden over in the fall and work it up in the spring. Works for me.

My wife threw some winter wheat down in her garden. Heard that was good for the soil. ????

 

[chieffan]

Lot of farmers plant Rye grass as soon as the corn is out as a cover crop and retard soil erosion. Spray it in the spring to kill off everything and plant no till.

 

[MNGB]

My wife threw some winter wheat down in her garden. Heard that was good for the soil. ????

Yep mow it off in the spring and work it into the ground good organic material

 

[Toomanytoys84]

I turn mine over in fall, layer with the rabbit pellets, turn it over in the spring, cultivate then plant.

Can't wait for gardening season to come back around! Its already January and we haven't seen snow, hardly any frost. Just gotta make it through 70ish days till I can start working outside again.

 

[Propane1]

I turn mine over in fall, layer with the rabbit pellets, turn it over in the spring, cultivate then plant.

Can't wait for gardening season to come back around! Its already January and we haven't seen snow, hardly any frost. Just gotta make it through 70ish days till I can start working outside again.

Hehe, a little longer here before planting. About 120 plus days before ground work here. But it’s coming. Days should start to seem longer soon.

Noel

 

[Toomanytoys84]

Hehe, a little longer here before planting. About 120 plus days before ground work here. But it’s coming. Days should start to seem longer soon.

Noel

I try to plant some early stuff once the risk of frost is gone. Usually late March early April.

March 20th is 76 days away. Around that point I'll start cultivating and getting my little plot cleaned up. We don't freeze up too bad. Been a long time since we froze bad. A few years ago some people who didn't properly install their water and sewage line below the frost line had issues.

 

[Propane1]

We have had frost the second and third week of June. But normally no frost after the third or fourth week in May.

Noel

 

[Propane1]

Great to be talkin about planting season. Hehe.

Noel.

 

[Toomanytoys84]

Great to be talkin about planting season. Hehe.

Noel.

I agree. Much better than talking about s**w cleanup!

 

[Cvans]

Heard that was good for the soil. ????

Don't know but let us in on how it worked will you?

 

[Propane1]

My wife threw some winter wheat down in her garden. Heard that was good for the soil. ????

I think the farmers around here plant rye grass or wheat or something. Fields turn green and is left till spring. Then plowed or disked in.

Noel

 

[4getgto]

Below is a copy and paste I seen somewhere.

"Leaving an unplanted area of your garden as bare soil can easily lead to the germination of unwanted weeds and to damaging soil erosion. Cover crops are intended to cover this bare soil and provide a cheap source of nutrients for your garden plants. When cover crops are turned under and decompose in the soil they increase the organic matter as they break down into humus."
And taking cover crop to mean rye, wheat ,oats.

My wife read up on this a lot more than I did. She's the boss in the garden..!

 

[Sawdust]

We had a real late garden last year things just kept growing. I could only turn parts of it under at a time and let other areas grow. I did get some cow and chicken manure down before it got too wet. I like planting crimson clover for a cover crop but because so much was late it didn’t germinate as good as it should. We actually got our Burpee Seed catalog last week it sure brought a smile.

 

[oldedeeres]

Below is a copy and paste I seen somewhere.

"Leaving an unplanted area of your garden as bare soil can easily lead to the germination of unwanted weeds and to damaging soil erosion. Cover crops are intended to cover this bare soil and provide a cheap source of nutrients for your garden plants. When cover crops are turned under and decompose in the soil they increase the organic matter as they break down into humus."
And taking cover crop to mean rye, wheat ,oats.

My wife read up on this a lot more than I did. She's the boss in the garden..!

Up here these are called "green manure" crops and are worked down before they set seed and then the fields are seeded to the regular crop. Summer fallow was used the same way, let the weeds get well started and then work them down. I do the same with my garden, work it in the fall, let weeds grow (as if I could stop them, LOL) in spring, work it again and then seed.

 

[Sawdust]

It’s like a science Nora watching what weeds do to keep them under control. I have two particular types of weeds in our potato patch that seed at different times. If gone unnoticed their seeds are unreal.

 

[oldedeeres]

Have you ever noticed that some weeds have the uncanny ability to resemble whatever veggie they are growing in? I have missed seeing pig weed in both Swiss Chard and potatoes until it towered over both of them, lol.