March
Yard
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- Cut grass
- Rear tires spin a lot. Consider more aggressive tread and possibly narrower tires
Front Garden
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- Added 5 yards of soil for the initial fill of the raised beds.
- Used Best Start from Head Lee Landscape Supply at $54 / yd.
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- Added 15 yards of mulch to the entire garden.
- Used Single Ground Hardwood from Head Lee Landscape Supply at $18.50 / yd.
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- Added 1 yard of soil to fill all the beds to max.
- Added 1 yard of mulch to bank next to driveway.
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- Bent 1/2″ EMT into loops to create low tunnels.
- Put 1.2oz AgFabric Row Cover over lettuce/cabbage/spinach/arugula bed (#7) and over front middle tomato bed (#5). These greenhouse clamps worked great to hold the fabric on the EMT.
- Planted bed #7 with the following:
- Lettuce: Little Gem, Burpee Bibb, Black Seeded Simpson, Red Salad Bowl & Buttercrunch
- Planted 4 per square
- Most of the Burpee Bibb were tiny so we direct seeded 1 of the 3 squares.
- Cabbage: Salad Delight & Red Dragon
- Planted 1 per square
- Only had 1 seedling, direct seeded the remaining squares.
- Spinach: Bloomsdale
- Planted 9 per square.
- Direct seeded most squares. Only had 3 tiny seedlings.
- Arugula: Rocket
- Planted 9 per square
- Direct seeded all squares.
- Lettuce: Little Gem, Burpee Bibb, Black Seeded Simpson, Red Salad Bowl & Buttercrunch
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- Direct planted Arugula, Spinach & Cabbage have come up.
- These look like they’ll do better direct planted instead of started inside. If there’s a good 1-2 week weather window, start these directly outside next year.
Seedlings
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- Brought lettuce trays outside for 2 hours to start hardening off. Placed on rack in shade of back porch.
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