It’s almost time to get out the rototiller and plow up the garden! I’d have already started except for the lingering cold weather and high winds that keep blowing everything in my yard around everything else in my yard! Place is a mess and I’m not exactly looking forward to cleaning it up, what with all the leaves and twigs and sticks that need to get picked up and tossed into the trailer for the trip to the local dump along with other bits of unusable yard waste and the like. I do like gardening though, as much of a grump I am about it.

I do so enjoy the benefits of growing one’s own veggies! Won’t be too long before I get it under control again I’m sure. Just making the first move that bugs me I guess. Mainly because once I start I have a tendency not to want to stop until I’ve completed whatever it is I’ve begun. The problem there lies in the matter that it is usually a two or three day job I’m trying to get done in a day. Oh well, I’ll just do it as it comes along.

My plan is to cut back a bit on tomatoes and try an increases bean production along with extending the melon patch. Probably just a couple of pepper plants this year and I may plant a couple more fruit trees as so far the only ones making a go of it are one golden delicious apple tree and of course the chestnut tree. My pear and plum and peach trees all succumbed to slugs and bad weather, the strawberries are holding their own though despite the slugs. Now that I’ve been thinking about it I have a sudden urge for fresh fruit along with some cottage cheese…hmm, sounds good.