Preparing Garden for Spring 2009

**Durgan** · 08-22-2008, 07:34 PM

http://www.durgan.org/ShortURL/?SJQOX 22 August 2008 Preparing Garden for Spring 2009
A portion of the vegetable garden was cleared of spent vegetation, potatoes, beans, carrots, beets,and prepared for the planting of annual red clover cover crop, which will be surface seeded just prior to a rainstorm. The area was rototilled, using the small Honda FG110, in both directions and raked relatively smooth. The area prepared is 26 feet by 16 feet.

Red annual clover will grow until frost, then be winter killed and rototilled in early Spring. The cover crop feeds the earthworms, and fixes soil nitrogen, and reduces streamlet erosion, and adds some fiber (aeration).

**missyali** · 08-22-2008, 08:37 PM

What a great garden. I need to get pictures of mine up for suggestions!

**Durgan** · 08-22-2008, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by missyali

What a great garden. I need to get pictures of mine up for suggestions!

Photography and Gardening fit tighter than OJ's glove if he had of squeezed it on. I never go into the garden without my camera, and I developed a method of display, which is second to none on the Internet. This was after testing all of the "Bucket" free display systems.