From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Drew Lawson wrote:   
   ...   
   > I've been working on getting the food garden mulched, but the rain   
   > is making that tricky.  The county has free mulch (made from the   
   > free dumping of brush -- the circle of mulch), but loading in the   
   > rain is no fun.   
   >   
   > The coming week has rain forecast for every day.  But just a tiny   
   > bit of rain, sometime.  I'm hoping for some good windows.   
   >   
   > Last year, I didn't get the full bed mulched before I planted, and   
   > things were a disaster.  Mulching before planting is just dumping   
   > wheel-barrows of mulch.  After planting, it is tedious, back-ache,   
   > work.   
   >   
   > I had a plan.   
   >   
   > In the plan, I would get the mulch done in March, well before last   
   > frost.   
   >   
   > So far, my master plan has slipped by a month on all metrics.   
   >   
   > Well, maybe next spring.   
      
     this spring/late winter there was a lot of rain and   
   that means i can't do much in the gardens with a lot   
   of them having a lot of clay in the mix.  just have to   
   be patient (or you're making bricks).   
      
     we've had some nice days this week so i was able to   
   get working on some gardens and do some weeding.  the   
   largest garden i'm working on now i have to move a lot   
   of plants (because i want them along the edges where i'll   
   have to hand weed anyways) so eventually the time i put in   
   moving plants will pay off to not have to work around   
   them in the central part of the garden.  the areas that   
   don't have plants in the way i can dig a hole, skim the   
   surface and bury that so many of the weed seeds won't be   
   able to sprout.  it will take me several years to get   
   this garden back under control because it was mostly   
   neglected last year and a lot of weed seeds were able to   
   fall.  i did a pretty good job along the top edge and   
   along the side edge where i have creeping thyme growing   
   and that looks nice, but once i injured my leg that   
   ruined my plans for having that garden done before   
   winter.  ah well, stuff happens... :)   
      
      
   >>  it was supposed to snow last night yet that did not   
   >>happen much.   
   >   
   > We seem to be past the snow (but no guarantees), and have thunderstorms   
   > on the horizon (and a few already happened).   
      
     at the moment it looks like you may get some rains but   
   most of it looks to be heading further north for a change.   
   i think we'll get some rain from this storm (and that is   
   ok with me - i need a day off).   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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