Man!  I forgot how much work tilling actually is.  We grow grass over our garden plot each autumn/winter as a cover crop, so each spring is like trying to till ground anew.  The ground is always a bit tougher, and the roots from the grasses always seem to get caught up in the tines, necessitating that I stop every couple of minutes to clear them out, but the results are worth it.  We add more organic materials into our soil, and, perhaps more importantly, we suppress those pesky early-season weeds just a bit.  They’ll try to make an appearance, to be sure, but any way to keep them away for any amount of time is worth it.  We would already have a plot full of weeds by now were it not for the cover crop.

In the next few days, after this next bout of rain, I’ll be spreading our soil amendments in preparation of our early season crop of romaine lettuce.

I’m thinking of a test, which involves the spreading of soil amendments over half of my garden, to show just how well our amendments work.  Granted, the only thing grown will be weeds (as it won’t be time to plant veggies for quite some time still), but since weeds and our veggies require the same nutrients to live and thrive, the test will remain apt.

We’ll also be introducing a couple of videos here on the blog so that we might show how to brew or steep our organic fertilizer tea bags to ensure maximum effectiveness in your garden.