This is the 2nd hard freeze since I put my garden in; frazzeled and hurried I cover in P.M. and uncover in the A.M. so far so good! Only lost my okra plants so far & 1 tomato plant.

But tonigh I am wondering if I may not wind up with frozen spinach. And thank God for mulch, it saved me last time. I use it to cover at night as well as a flannel sheet from the house. I believe the mulch (lawn mower clippings) works best..FYI.

Spinach is pretty hardy once it's established, Cathy. I suspect it will weather the frost OK.

As to the others, well, you kind of pushed the season with those tender plants. But, fortunately, there's plenty of time to replant if you should lose them.

Well we lucked out & lost nothing! I noticed this am that my turnip seed have sprouted! Everytime something sprouts I still get excited as a kid! You're right about me pushing it by planting a little early. I had always liked to plant on Good Friday down in lower Alabama area where I lived for 18 yrs. never really considered the fact I am a good deal further north here and should've adjusted accordingly (plus Easter fell early this yr.)... so far though I have been most fortunate! And then this past Sat. we fenced in our chicken coup. Well then it goes and turns colder than normal. I will be relieved when it just stays mild spring temperatures!

Guess what I had Sunday night? OK give up????


A fresh spinach salad from my GARDEN!!! I even had 4 sugar snap peas to cut up and put into it, and it was delicious and so satisfying! Yeah the spinach looked like it needed thinning so, I took the snips and gave it a trimming out and had enough for a bowl of salad...for me! I offered to share but no one accepted so I ate the whole thing! I am really enjoying this garden, and the challenges to grow the best crop I can.

I wish I had a picture to show you, it looks so funny. One part is an area rug with holes for the squash plants, they came up good, the next area is an old maroon shower curtian with rows running thru it. Then this flowered wall paper with rows plantd between it and the last area is a astro-turf type carpet with holes with veggies planted in them. The entire garden looks neat and clean and no weeds and only veggie plants poking through here and there! No hoe-ing and plenty of clean area to kneel down and do whatever I want.

Cheers, Cathy

Lucky you!

Me and the boys just finished getting the compost into the garden and also some manure yesterday. Have to till it in there hopefully by Monday and then I plan on getting some corn in the ground and begin incorporating the rest of the garden.

I am one of those who enjoys weeding so I don't cover it with much. I have gotten pretty good with the garden hoe over the years and can just pop weeds out whenever they come up.