Reverse Winterizing!

Wow here it is March, and not enough dry days in a row( still) to go till that soil for early seed sowing. Tilling or plowing wet soil creates a restrictive environment for promising seed growth. Working with wet soil can do more harm than good! The soil binds up and compacts so much so that when the seeds are planted they struggle to grow roots, it almost suffocates them and smaller plants are many times the result of planting in too wet of soil. The rains creating a soggy structure also can cause seeds to rot in the ground even if they manage to make any design of root growth.

According to a news release by one of our local channels we are supposed to have a continually wet spring. No not again this year!!!!! I sure hope they are wrong!


So leave it to the invention of plastics (used oh so sparingly), to allow me to dry out at least some of the rows I have got to have dried out enough to til. Jordyn, a local Prarie High School student and Lady Pack member of our local Rugby team was kind enough to help me place grow tunnels over some of the key rows I need dried out first. It is definitely a two person job to manage the wires and ever sliding plastic sleeves if you want relatively straight rows. Thanks Jordyn!

Well off to more trays of seed starts and hope for drier weather!

Clark County Farmerette