With the end of February officially here and March about to begin, I'm getting more anxious to get this winter/spring garden growing in high gear. Of course the problem with growing in high gear is this relentless winter that has been producing long streaks of below normal temperatures slowing down the growing process. A brief warm up a few days ago gave the veggies a bit of a boost but that is long gone and the first week of March will bring us more chilly weather.
Once the weather returns to normal, I'm looking forward to a lot of good things coming out of the garden including bok choy, cabbage and beets. A trip to the nursery last week for a couple bags of pine soil gave me even more to look forward to with pepper plants, strawberry plants, tyme and two packs of heirloom tomato seeds (Purden's Purple and Boxcar Willie) coming home with us.
My nankeen cotton, buckwheat and pepper seeds arrived last week from a Virginia heirloom seed company. The cotton seeds will be planted soon and the buckwheat will be used as my summer cover crop. Pepper seeds will be planted for the fall season.
Cotton growing will be a first for me and one experiment that I'm looking forward to doing. I'm encouraged by the fact that we saw it growing in the Cracker Country garden at the state fair. Buckwheat is also a first for our garden and will be used as a cover crop this summer. Buckwheat is considered a "green manure" and will be tilled back into the soil before it goes to seed.
A sneak peek into next fall's garden will show tomatoes coming back!!
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