From Here to There.....and Back. #7: And so it begins....

Beautiful land … I do love the look of freshly tilled ground. Sitting from where I am (small city plot) your gardens, the shear size, are just mind blowing. If I may ask (what is probably a silly question) but how do you actually plant all this? Is it done by hand … or are there machines now that assist with that.

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

About half and half. I have an earthway planter for doing the larger stuff like popcorn and beans. The rest is taken in sections. Taters are easy…..I don’t know…it all seems to get done.

I hate to even walk in it…it’s so nice and fluffly.

-- arborial reconfiguration specialist......Zone out....(USA 5)

That’s a nice sized garden, eh.. I wish I had more land to be able to play with. I’d LOVE to get the field that’s beside us, about an acre there. Doubt I ever will.

Nice work you’ve got there. :)

-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b

wow.. that’s quite the garden!!
lucky to have a neighbour help out in the spring )

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Sure wouldn’t want to weed those babies. Oh my aching back.. ha ha ha

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

ewww never thought of weeding… planting is fun because it’s all about hope and potential..
weeding… well, I’m running out of patience by then lol

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Well, the big change this year is weed cloth and row covers. So, weeds should be at a minimum. Row covers will take care of the “little white butterflies”. We’ll lay down the weed clothe and cut holes where each thing will be planted. By using a bulb tool we can cut a small hole in the clothe and drop a seedling right in….or seed with just a small cut and some compost.

I figured out real quick if I’m going to make this work I can’t be breaking my back doing it. So each year I add things that take some of that back-breaking work out of it. Proper spacing of your rows for power equipment to get in, or weed clothe, or whatever. That and getting to any weeds BEFORE they go to seed.

time to git’r done.

oh and btw, MsD, my project on Refurber ( I see you posted a comment there) shows my house. If you are looking south out the back of the house, the above pics are what you see (amoungst other things. The view out the front goes a couple of miles.) Since I got tired of looking at turned bowls and pens and end tables at LJ (o.k. o.k. they like that stuff there and nothing wrong with it…just not for me…) I decided to sign on to refurbers…I’m still not sure why…but, I did. Things are circular that way you know. GT, LJ, RF, etc. I figured I am where I am and it’s real good. In case things fall apart, I have a pretty good killing field…er….uh…view of things when it happens.

-- arborial reconfiguration specialist......Zone out....(USA 5)

haha I think Martin has all the bases covered with the 3 sites :) Should cover all the interests of home owners.

LOVELY property!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

And I u/l’d an avitar. It’ll do for now. until a pic of me comes out where it doesn’t scare little children.

home is where yer stuff is.

-- arborial reconfiguration specialist......Zone out....(USA 5)