Y’all, it has been raining for almost a week and it is going to rain over the weekend. (It’s Thursday as I write this.) We just had a severe weather yesterday, we have a severe weather threat tomorrow, and we are in a flash flood watch until Sunday. Happy Midwestern Spring!
So far the rain has kept me from getting my garden tilled. My husband tried to till last Sunday before a round of severe weather rolled through but the soil was essentially mud. He was able to just get the top most layer of it tilled so that we could get the initial weeds out, but for fear of compacting the soil he didn’t try to till any deeper. I am desperate to get this garden in. I have cool weather crops that are going to end up going in at least two weeks late. Depending on how the weather looks I may have to set my green stalks up for some of my cool weather crops so that I can get something in.
Speaking of my Green Stalks, yesterday the wind was so bad, it toppled one of my planters. I have never had this happen before. I think when I moved them closer to my house I placed them in an area more susceptible to the wind. They also need more soil added to them so they were lighter than usual. Thankfully, the lemon balm that I salvaged out of the garden before my husband tilled was in the planter that stayed up right. The only plant I may have lost was some lavender. I did carefully pull it from the soil and replant it. We shall see if it survives.
I of course took no pictures for fear of blowing away and the fact that I just don’t think to take pictures of things like that to share. That’s going to be one of those learning adjustments I go through this year.
In the midst of waiting for the weather to come in, my husband’s best friend dropped off my chicken coop!! I have been yearning for chickens for at least 6 years now and I am finally getting some. We are starting with a very small coop that will only hold about 6 chickens. I haven’t yet decided what type of chickens I want to get. That is my project for this rainy weekend.
