Garden prep

11 years ago

last modified: 11 years ago

It is spring planting time again. Also warm early again. I divided my backyard into 6 2' wide rows each about 25' long and since I have quite heavy sand, each one got 2 cubic feet of core and 80 pounds of composted organic cow manure and will be side dressed with Milorganite during the growing season. I have them set up so that each bed gets watered individually by hand, since the total is really so small. Each row was one round trip with my electric Mantis. I think that some time next month or so my back will finally recover!

Last fall the garlics and tulips went in and are up and looking real good, and the onion plants and multiplier sets are also already in this spring. I think that in the coming week I will gamble and put in the rest including the tender stuff. Radishes, carrots, peas and coles are already a little late, but there will also be squash, beans, melons, tomatoes and peppers, although not much of any of them. Plus an earth box of sweet potatoes, but those will be later. It will end up being pretty tight if most of that works out at all!

Then I am going fishing....

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LoneJack Zn 6a, KC
11 years ago
Only 10 days until the MN Walleye opener! We caught our Walleye limit here in Missouri all 3 times we have gone out and Crappie are almost jumping into the boat. We are coming up your way for a long weekend in June at my brothers lake place on Whitefish.

We are several weeks ahead of you here in Missouri so I have everything in except the Peppers and the 3rd and 4th corn planting. Just saw last night that my earliest Broccoli has little heads forming about the size of a quarter but I also saw a couple Cabbage moths fluttering around them so time to break out the BTK after the monsoons roll thru this week.

By the way, I used to love your Potato Chips when I was a kid living in MN back in the 60s. Do they still make Old Dutch chips?
OldDutch (Zone 4 MN)
Original Author
11 years ago
Old Dutch brand snacks are still around. Me? I am simply old and actually only half Dutch. The cardiac doctors got me on low salt; so I have to pass on the potato chips these days.

Fishing has been good around here for crappies but the size is pretty small this year. If you get up to the Whitefish chain in early June you may still catch the nice crappie and bluegills on the beds up there. That should be over pretty soon for you down in Missouri, but it hasn't gotten started here in Minneapolis, just yet. The full moon in June (June 2) should be hot for panfish spawn in Minnesota this year.
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