On these warm, sunny days the Gamgee in me comes out with a rush and I must get the garden in. Too sore and tired to post but I love it!
Me too! The only problem is that my vegetable garden is at the folks' house which is around 60 miles away from "my house." So basically the only time I have to potter is on the weekends.
I am the same way! We have a beautiful garden, although during the winter it looks like 8 very large burial sites! In the Fall, we haul in a full truckload of zoo manure into the backyard and pile it onto the 4x10' beds. We dig it in a little and then cover all the beds in a thick layer of hay. Lately we've been pulling the hay aside and digging in the dirt alittle, mixing things up...although everything is pretty composted by now. We plant our transplants and then draw the hay up around each plant again, adding more as needed. We rarely have a weed! Sometimes we may have to pull the hay aside and look for a cutworm that's damaging our plants but we only have to do that a few times to get that problem under control. Cabbage loopers are one of our biggest pests, and last year we had gophers that would pull huge plants clear down into the ground! This year we wrapped the roots of our transplants in steel wool and have not had a problem yet with gophers.
I have a sage plant that is the size of a moderate shrub and it's blooming and beautiful! We also had more asparagus than we could eat this year and the horseradish is just going crazy.
Our garden is completely organic and usually a big success!