Spring Itch

The weather has taken a turn toward spring as the forecast calls for our first 70 degree weather day of the year. Even though it is still freezing at night, the warmer days has me wanting to get the garden started, but first I need to get some dirt turned over.

The last dry-ish spell we had several weeks ago didn’t allow me to get the tiller out of storage before the rain muddied up the area where I like to put my cool weather veggies like radish, lettuce, broccoli, peas and early carrots. The main part of the garden, where Mike uses the tractor to break open the ground, still has a few more weeks to go before I can plant the long rows of onions, potatoes and beets with nearly a month to go before I can put out tender tomato, pepper, eggplant, cucumber and squash plants.

The itch is getting stronger and I feel that I won’t be able to ignore it’s magnetic pull so between other farm duties, I am going to spend some quality time playing in the dirt.

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