Wannabefree...guess what I got in the mail today!?!?!?!?

[Wannabefree]

So much for my garden plans. I can't get anyone out to break ground that won't cost an arm and a leg. I am so close to just selling out, house and all and buying a frickin tent and some canned goods. I AM SO FRUSTRATED!!!!!!

 

[FarmerJamie]

So much for my garden plans. I can't get anyone out to break ground that won't cost an arm and a leg. I am so close to just selling out, house and all and buying a frickin tent and some canned goods. I AM SO FRUSTRATED!!!!!!

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

So much for my garden plans. I can't get anyone out to break ground that won't cost an arm and a leg. I am so close to just selling out, house and all and buying a frickin tent and some canned goods. I AM SO FRUSTRATED!!!!!!

Can you just do the no till style?

 

[Wannabefree]

So much for my garden plans. I can't get anyone out to break ground that won't cost an arm and a leg. I am so close to just selling out, house and all and buying a frickin tent and some canned goods. I AM SO FRUSTRATED!!!!!!

Can you just do the no till style?

Our ground is like concrete there is so much clay. It REALLY needs to have some massive poops and leaf mold dug in to even be worth the effort. So, I guess I could, but I really think it would be more work than benefit. so far I have done raised bed, and containers for what I have and was waiting to do the BIG stuff in the actual ground, things that don't require SO much, and aren't particularly picky about their soil. so I could grow an acre of okra, but I dunno what i'd do with all of it *sigh*

 

[Shiloh Acres]

Awwww ... I'm sorry to hear it has you so frustrated.


Are raised beds an option at all?

 

[FarmerJamie]

What about digging a small "trench" that would be the row you plant the seeds? In a wheelbarrow or such, whip up your "potting soil" and fill the trench with that. Then mulch the heck (got free newspapers from local free publications??) out of the rest of the garden in between the rows.

Plowing up the whole garden looks nice, but is so over-rated.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

you need to call around to your local farms and see if they have old bales of hay and straw that they will give you.
And ask on craigs list for bags of mulchy type things.

I plant lots of things in layers of hay, leaves, poo and a little bit of dirt sprinkled on top.
No better time then now to start.
Even my pots and raised beds are done this way.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

What about digging a small "trench" that would be the row you plant the seeds? In a wheelbarrow or such, whip up your "potting soil" and fill the trench with that. Then mulch the heck (got free newspapers from local free publications??) out of the rest of the garden in between the rows.

Plowing up the whole garden looks nice, but is so over-rated.

And its so unhealthy for the soil.

 

[Wannabefree]

hey don't give out free newspapers around here that I know of...but I guess I can do some more raised beds and do the rest with a shovel. I was just hoping to not have to. I am SO behind right now on this stuff Still have a goat shed to finsih tomorrow too. Then I guess I better get to digging. I needed to already have my peas planted. This is just such a bummer. I guess I am SO aggravated because I was not prepared for the situation, I HAD someone coming out, but the other half of the deal backed out TODAY with no notice and just left me to figure it out on my own. sometimes folks can be such inconsiderate blithering toads.

 

[FarmerJamie]

What about digging a small "trench" that would be the row you plant the seeds? In a wheelbarrow or such, whip up your "potting soil" and fill the trench with that. Then mulch the heck (got free newspapers from local free publications??) out of the rest of the garden in between the rows.

Plowing up the whole garden looks nice, but is so over-rated.

And its so unhealthy for the soil.

Having spent many a long Spring weekend plowing my grandpa's fields in my younger days, it does look so perty when you're done though....