GARDENING 2025!

[RJ2019]

I spent a good part of the morning pulling up the drip lines and clearing old vegetation. I reclaimed the tomato cages and am sending the Bermuda grass to hell where it belongs. Sheet mulching and throwing down foot-thick layers of straw doesn't cut it with the Bermuda grass, so every so often I have to lay down black plastic and cook the evil stuff. It's been a worse problem since I laid down the irrigation lines.
Here's a couple pics of my Bermuda crop before and after plastic treatment.

I'm not a huge fan of using the plastic but if I mulch over it in the summer it lasts about 4 years. Last time I resorted to this was 5 years ago...except where I planted the berries.

On the side I didn't lay down plastic I cut down the growth and emptied the poop out of the chicken coop onto it to soak in over the winter. I left an area unfertilized so I can go back out and plant onions and garlic this afternoon.

 

[Pearl]

I spent a good part of the morning pulling up the drip lines and clearing old vegetation. I reclaimed the tomato cages and am sending the Bermuda grass to hell where it belongs. Sheet mulching and throwing down foot-thick layers of straw doesn't cut it with the Bermuda grass, so every so often I have to lay down black plastic and cook the evil stuff. It's been a worse problem since I laid down the irrigation lines.
Here's a couple pics of my Bermuda crop before and after plastic treatment.

I'm not a huge fan of using the plastic but if I mulch over it in the summer it lasts about 4 years. Last time I resorted to this was 5 years ago...except where I planted the berries.

On the side I didn't lay down plastic I cut down the growth and emptied the poop out of the chicken coop onto it to soak in over the winter. I left an area unfertilized so I can go back out and plant onions and garlic this afternoon.

Looks like you have good helpers

 

[RJ2019]

Looks like you have good helpers

They try... for the 5-6 minutes I can keep their attention.

Here's the onion and garlic planting help I had. This is a tiny auger that chucks into a drill. Kids with power tools, what could possibly go wrong!?

 

[old tex]

My wife STRONGLY suggested a winter garden crop for this winter. I told her that I have a couple of planters ready, all you have to do if pick the plants & stick them in the dirt............(YOU being the key word)....So no winter crop this year.

Now the real reason for this post. It's leaf raking time here where I am. Each year I blow the leaves in a pile, pick them up & GRIND THEM UP, & put them out for the garbage men. Last year a neighbor saw me & asked for the bags of leaves. I was doing the same today (grinding them) & a guy stopped to ask me what I was going to do with them. Duh! I had put some in my new planters but didn't think about passing on the info. About 5 years ago I bought a leaf grinder on Amazon. It was made by WORKS & cost around $130? It works like a charm. Even if your not using it in your garden it does reduce the number of bags for the garbage men (about 3.5 down to 1). I also bought a "thing" that looks like a pup tent to collect the leaves in on TEMU. You rake them in (it holds a lot) & dump them into the grinder. It works GREAT! If you want more info just let me know. I HATE doing leaves but with the right equipment I've cut down the time I spend doing it by at least half.