Yesterday, February 28th, I had just finished digging 3 trenches for potatoes and prepared one bed for onions when a blustery storm chased me into the house. It rained hard, it rained sideways, and it rained hail.
Today, March 1st, I went outside to check the planting beds and to my surprise, they were not wet. I planted the potatoes and the onions.
According to instructions, I planted the seed potatoes, which I had cut a few days ago, 18 inches apart and covered them with soil. I didn’t measure the soil depth, but it was probably around 3 inches or less.
I pushed the onions, spaced 6 inches apart, into the ground. The last two dozen or more onions are closer than 6 inches because I was running out of space.
I added leaf mold to the garden and tilled the garden last November and that made this job easy compared to what it might have been. The soil could have been wet, compacted, and heavy, but it was not.
Last year at my request, my husband dumped a large pile of mulched leaves in the middle of the garden. He was glad to do it because it saved him time. It will save me time too because I won’t have to haul mulch from the woods. A caveat is that I usually use leaves from the year before last. Today I used some of the leaves to mulch parts of the garden, the path, the space between the potatoes, and a thin layer over the onion bed. I’ll see how that works out later.
I am looking forward to hearing all about your garden this year.
My neighbor brought over four herb plants. I followed the direction on watering and keeping them in the kitchen. They all died. I cried.
Congratulations on getting your potatoes and onions in! My first winter in Minnesota has taught me to appreciate all the gardening opportunities that Texas holds. I just found your website, and I had to tell you thank you. In taking care of my home and homeschooling my four children I will definitely get much use out of the forms and information you’ve provided. Thank you for your generosity.
Reading about your garden is like a quick little walk outside in a happy place. Everything is dead in my little planters and I can’t catch up on the laundry.
So for now I’ll read about your lovely vegetables and flowers
I must have an inner-gardener because I do enjoy your gardening posts. Then comes August….
I wish I could begin thinking about a garden right now 🙁 but April is the earliest that it is profitable to do so. As soon as the weather gets warm enough at night to leave my vehicle outside I’ll have hubby begin building my green house that will be a more permanent structure.
Applie, that’s sad! I know how you feel and I can’t tell you why online because a certain someone who would be in the story might read this.
Shannon, you are welcome. I’ve heard that winters in Minnesota are quite cold.
Lisa, my garden is a happy place for me.
Sheri,
August, why did you have to bring up August? And here I was in my happy place.
Elaine, A permanent greenhouse– that ought to be nice!!