Everybody in my Trailer Park is sprucing up their yards. It looks like a Garden Club.
On the bright side, we start our seeds indoors this week.
It was 24 degrees here this morning. I have lots of seeds to plant, but it’s too cold!
But I cannot plant them for at least a month due to below freezing night temps. Seems I need to give them away to someone with a green house. Thank God for them all they same.
(date is wrong from cheap camera) 
I am reposting my FReepers-only offer: If you are unable to get seeds for this year’s planting season, let me know what you need. I can’t promise you specific varieties, but I should be able to get you something.
I’m still getting my starter pots made and filled. I have 3 trays filled with pots made from cardboard TP tubes. Now I’m taking apart the spare seed catalogs and folding the pages into boxes for starter pots.
This year it seems like every seed company sent me 3-4 catalogs each, so I have lots of material to use!
I ran out of my seed starting mix after the first tray, so I need to see what I have. I don’t like the pre-made mixes, and I don’t want to run to the store for stuff. All my ingredients have gotten moved around though, so we’ll see what I can find.
My chickens are doing a good job of keeping us in eggs. And when I let them loose in the yard, they patrol the garden for grubs right away. I haven’t seen a Japanese Beetle for 2 years now thanks to them!
Dad has spent the whole winter tinkering with my tractor. The tiller attachment now has a reverse lever. The theory is that I can use it to spit out the rocks that get caught, instead of having to reach in with a hammer. In previous years I have spent more time dislodging rocks than I actually spent tilling. hopefully this will make the job go faster and more smoothly. I’ve also ordered 6 rolls of super-heavy-duty landscape fabric, 4x250 each. It won’t cover my entire field, but it should help some. I’m hoping it will at least be enough for my cash crops, since the weed pressure is a huge factor in past crop failures.
This year I’m even more determined to camp out on my land all summer. I think it’s going to be a matter of survival this time.
Its still cold here in IL, but I filled a planter box with soil 2 weeks ago and planted kohlrabi and radishes, which can take the cold. Radishes were up yesterday.
There is quite the discussion on the latest corona thread about gardening.
I’m going to encourage people to come over here for it.