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We have a nice sunny Thanksgiving Day here, so I plowed my vegetable garden and got it ready for spring.
Using a tractor and 2-bottom plow, I turned the garden 18" deep - twice longways and once crossways. I've been tilling in lots of compost and green manure crops here for years, and this soil is good, good stuff. Every fall, I pull the bean, pepper, and tomato plants and put them on the burn pile - but I plow the cornstalks in, they're good for the soil.
I'm going to cut my vegetable production back to just a little more than what we need - not the ridiculous surpluses I usually raise. In the spring I'll plow the garden again with a light dose of 10-10-10 fertilizer and ammonium sulfate (my pH tends to the high side because of all the local limestone). Then I'll till it once to get the soil more even, and I'll be ready to plant.
Cutting back, I'm going to plant 1/3 of the garden in buckwheat (green manure) and raise vegetables in the rest. I'll till the buckwheat under before it makes seeds, and I can do that twice in a season. Then I'll rotate veggies and buckwheat in different parts of the garden season after season.
Next spring, PLEASE remind me not to plant so many cucumbers! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
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