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   From: Michael Trew    
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   Subject: Re: quiet winter times   
   Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:08:25 -0500   
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   From: michael.trew@att.net   
      
   On 1/11/2023 9:49, songbird wrote:   
   >    not too much different goes on here for gardening at this   
   > time of the year.   
   >   
   >    daydreaming of spring,   
      
   That's the extent of my life as of yet ;)   
      
   >    any plans there for this coming gardening   
   > season?  it is mostly looking like the normal   
   > routine here and i'm quite ok with that!   
      
   I had a rather small vegetable garden along the side of my hill the last   
   two years, right at the top, and it's always been difficult to tend   
   it... especially trying to get footing while I turn soil over with my   
   old belt-driven rototiller... plus the bricks to keep the dirt from   
   washing down.  I live on a fairly steep city lot.  I think I might plant   
   a few flowers (I have dahlia tubers, etc.) there this year, and move the   
   vegetables elsewhere.   
      
   There is a flat spot lower on my lot, about the same size (maybe 3 feet   
   wide by 18-20 feet long), where I can easily walk along a wide stone   
   retaining wall to tend the garden.  I might take Sheldon's (RFC)   
   suggestion and make a raised bed out of it.  Grandpap lived through the   
   depression, and they planted a lot... he strictly advised starting to   
   turn the soil over in late February, as soon as it isn't frozen... we're   
   gaining on that time fast (eastern Ohio).  I do have a few tree limbs to   
   cut to take full advantage of the southern exposure.   
      
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