And that spiney bastige got it

First asperagoose of the year ;)

You have growing things already?
Our daffodills aren't even flowering yet.

Yes, I know we live in different climates.
But sometimes, because we share a language, I forget a little.

I'll have to take some photos of Penny (my Cherry tree) again this year.
She's already fat with bud.
Still leaning like Pisa's tower, but I've decided it does not bother me. I haven't killed her yet and that's what's important.

we had a few good days and I got a few crocuses (just the yellow ones/ don't know where the other four colours are!) a couple snow drops fighting their way up.

Dafs and tulips and hyacints and maybe the alliums are coming.... they're making a nice show of green but no colour yet. Then we got a snow storm this weekend and I'm wondering if I'll ever see em.

Hard to plan buying seed potatoes when the world still looks so white

I'm going to make a big attempt to get my vegetable garden in today or tomorrow. We are already up in the mid 80's F in the day and 60's to 70's at night so summer will be here soon. My plot it about 10 x 25 ft or so and unfortunately the trees I planted on the west side of our property are getting bigger which provides afternoon shade but doesn't help the garden.

I stopped by Home Depot over the weekend and they had plant sale, the vegetables that usually go for $3.98 (which is outrageous) were reduced to $2 each (which is bearable) so I got about 10 tomatoes of different varieties and some peppers (capsicum for you Australian Cellar folks) and some additional herbs to add to that garden. I also got 10 bags of manure to add, the soil is pretty good but can always use a little more organic matter.

I have a gasoline powered tiller and will rake off the spring weeds and then get it all turned over and the plants in. I usually put down some of that compostable weed block material as I hate weeding. It keeps the weeds from growing but lets the water get to the ground.

What am I doing typing here? I could be working outside!:rolleyes:

Arkansas is like the Spain of the US. I think they can grow Pawpaws and bananas down there.

I put down black plastic two weekends back. Just too lazy to weed.

I need to make the posts and cross arms for my Hops ranch. Need to negotiate visiting rights for the hops plants.

Well, hop to it.

I'm hoping to hop to it.

It's the yeast you can do.

Start early, finish someday.

A few weeks back (4/14) I dug out the previous tenant's raised bed, added the tree that fell down and the rotting logs that used to define the bed perimeter, and then piled some straw and the topsoil back on.

In the end, that day of yardwork turned into a round of pruning the trees that resulted in just as much of a brush pile (maybe more) as we had before the hugelkultur. Oh well.

I'm calling this a "more cultured hugelkultur" -- the missus likes things more when they are rectilinear.

There's only a few inches of compost so far, and most of it is filling out the sides between my pallet-wall and the mound. A neighbor has a giant pile of compost, since he does this for a living, and a slightly more distant neighbor has an even larger pile, but after 8 wheelbarrows I'm starting to wonder what the upper limit of "take as much as you want" actually is.

(the photo is from around barrow #5)

well our hogra,, hogfra ,,,,, , fuck it raised wood garden aint so pretty but i bet it will do the job ,
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Carol even put a few extra tomato and other plants in it ,
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part 2 to follow

Planting time
 

Hay bales with maters and the such ,
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I beleve these are eggplants and squash
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Scuze me here's the egg plants , and peppers
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the pea patch is Happy happy ,
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and the Asperageese are doing Fine despite the weeds that Seem to
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Asperageese by zippyt, on Flickr the asperagoose patch

And Yes Sunday , we have growey up thingees all ready :)