Hi Folks: I am glad to have found a forum where I can find answers to problems and learn tricks of the trade from other gardeners. I have been doing suburban small gardening for about thirty years varying the different vegetables but with tomatoes a main character over time. The last three years I have repurposed old dimensional lumber to make raised garden beds though I have moved them twice already not being happy about surface water flow and too much shade. We are coming off a winter that was colder and wetter then recent winters and just this passed week we had two nights of upper 20 temps. I have planted successive plantings of lettuce, arugula and spinach starting the first week in March. Ground temperature stayed below forty and I didn't get any germination for three to four weeks. Last week I planted some organic Russian Fingerling Potatoes, some I put in raised beds and the remaining I laid into trenches. I plan on using straw and grass clippings as the taters sprout above the soil to cover the growing potatoes. I spent an hour trying to get the avatar for this forum to come up correct and I rotated the photo over and over and got every angle except upright. So I'll just leave it as is until I find something else. Thanks for letting me join and I look forward to learning and hopefully contributing.
Mike Love
Mike Love
