If we do just throw your sprinkler out there on low, the ground water will be warmer than the air
Nope no way. I only planted potatoes is because the soil temp is above 50 as it should be. Will take a couple of weeks for them to emerge leaves and I don’t see any bad weather predicted that far out. Once they emerge I can protect them by covering with a light cover of soil or hay. Nothing else planted here until mid April
Planted beets, turnips, mustard seed. Onion plants , cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower are in garden and greenhouses. Waiting to get my huckleberry gold potatoes before I can plant them. Will be planting 150 strawberry plants the week of the 17th.
Greenhouse cabbage looking good
Do you cut the seed potato's, let them scab over and then plant, or just drop the entire potato into the furrow?
Cut and scab over. If I remember I put some sulfur powder on them to help stop bacteria and disease
My buddy just throws the entire potato into the furrow. I keep telling him to cut, but he likes throwing money away I guess.
I have a small area with mostly clay that I've been throwing vegetable scraps in the last couple of years in the hope that I can plant something that will grow well. This red clay won't grow much without adding nutrients so I'm going to sneak over some nearby farmer's place that has cattle and steal some manure. That always makes for a good crop.
Make sure the hay doesn't have herbicide residue from grazon.
I haven't done it but have read that cow manure from the pasture will be full of seeds that will grow in your garden. Most have regretted using it. ( just from what I have read on the interwebs)
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