57 and drizzly here, with temps in the 58 to 64 range for next 9 days.
Might just trick some plants to bud but likely some cold times ahead.
Last year I lost 98% of the blooms in my orchard due to a very late frost.
Hope Mother Nature is kinder this year.
The trees are all pruned and ready.
Headed to a not so local nursery later this week to talk about pecan and walnut trees.
Want to see what size trees they have. I figure I'll use up about 2/3 of that new acre in nut trees and leave a third of an acre
for a vegetable garden. It will be right next to my friendly neighbor, and he has offered to help with mowing and tilling.
Now I can't eat the produce from a third of an acre, but together we should be able to eat/preserve it. Going to grow lots of carrots.
This sandy soil should be great for it. I came from clay and I'm ready for sand...
Have already gone through the seed catalog and my imagination is surely larger than my garden.
This part will need to be fenced with plastic deer fencing for anything to survive. My neighbor will help me with that. Last time I did a big garden in PA I used twelve foot 4x4's and a lot of them, wrapped with deer fencing held on by wood strips with screws designed to come out again, so the whole thing is easily disassembled with a portable screw driver. With no damage to the plastic fencing so it can be reused if put away. Poles stay up for the winter.
and if my neighbor doesn't mind, maybe the whole thing stays up.
First I need to pushpin the garden area and figure out how many linear feet of fencing, plus two gates, I would need.
Easy project with help, soft soil, just sink the 12 foot poles down about three feet and put up the highest deer fencing they have. Likely ten feet.
I put extensions on each pole to keep the top taut plus a little more to run a string with shiny bits on it. Helps to keep the birds from killing themselves on the fence tops. I'm guessing after I build all that I'm likely to want to leave it but I've done this before and it really comes down
nicely. Not like there's much to see in that direction anyway.
I know many of you are buried in snow and ice, maybe talks of gardens will warm things up.
