I received a garden tiller for Christmas after mentioning, in passing, that turning over the garden in the spring with a pitchfork was awful. Mom came to visit yesterday and one of the things we did was till the garden. What had previously taken something like 2-4 hours of miserable, dirty work took 20 minutes and is done better than I ever did with the fork. It’s basically magic. Anyway, I’m happy with it and I planted a few brussels sprouts plants so that the cabbage loopers will have something to eat this winter.
I need to decide what I’m going to plant because apparently it’s spring now. It’s January 21st and yesterday it was 75°F outside and it’s going to be like that all week until Friday when we get a cold front and get the high drops down to 60°F (brr). It’s too bad, I was looking forward to winter this year and we only had two weeks of it. Who knows, maybe it will snow on Valentine’s Day again like it did years back. I’m betting no. Anyway, I want green beans and I think I’ll try a climbing variety this time and put up some stuff for them to climb. As much as I would like to have cucumbers, that has never actually worked for me so I think that’s out. Acorn squash hasn’t really worked. Yellow squash has but I really only need like two of those. Tomatoes work. Peppers work. Something to think about.