Its almost that time again

[Eutycus]

I was going to post this on last year's garden thread but you know there's going to be a new gardening thread for 2025? So we may as well start it now. I realize it's early yet and South Texas is expecting a cold spell next week but I got out and tilled up one of my wife's smaller Flower Beds today. (It was done by hand). It's going to be my "starter garden" for tomato seeds.The ground is still cold and I usually wait till Febuary to start the seeds. But I want to get a early start. Before everyone thinks I'm crazy, I'm not planting yet,that's a few weeks away yet.I'm just getting the soil ready. Turning it black should help it absorb some solar heat. It's on the south side of my garage.If I wait too long things turn too hot down here in May and June. See y'all in a few weeks.

 

[Eutycus]

Carol said there'd be no more flower beds. So she gave me hers to use as my "little garden". I plan on using it for starting seeds in.

 

[Kansas Jake]

It’s seed catalog time here. The ground is covered with snow in most places and 9 degrees out.

 

[nkbj]

Got to put in a gate and repair the deer fence around the garden spot. Figure out this years' rotation. And trim back the grapevines and build some trellises. Assemble that double barrel composter still sitting in the garage. Remove a couple of box planters. Rig some deer barriers around the trellis that goes up a bird house pole. And put in the new water connections post in the center of the garden after I expanded the fenced in footprint last year. And I don't know right now what else but the better 2/3's has got about eighty feet of flower garden that I help her with. Fifty-three feet of it is enclosed, which reminds me that the swing way for her garden gate needs to be dug out and concreted. Want to put in a different bird feeder set up too because the new cat is going to be an unholy terror for the birds unless they have plenty of open leeway to see him coming. We have fun, keep busy and pretty much do what we want.