I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about our garden lately.  I guess the spring bug has bit me! LOL  While I’m still deciding what to grow and what variety’s I will try this year, my main thoughts are on how to make the work load easier.   The last normal garden season I remember was about 6 years ago.  Each summer since then has been “extreme” in some way.  We have had very hot summers with no rain, cold and dry summers, summers that were hot and heavy rains leading to the gardens flooding.  It’s hard to know what variety’s to plant some times!  I’ve lived all my life in the same growing zone and until these past few years I have not had so much trouble in the gardens.

This coming year we are going to start using a living mulch system.  I posted some videos in our forum last fall about these. Basically to start we will be using black plastic mulch in the planting rows.  In between them  we are planing a mix of red and white clover and alfalfa.  As this grows through the season it will be cut and let to compost in place.  This should provide cover for many beneficial insects and feed the soil steadily through the season.

I filmed this video yesterday with my new camera, it was a Christmas gift.  I love it!  The video is coming out very well!  Sorry for it showing so small, I had a setting wrong in the video editor.  I think I have it ok now.

The weather has been so nice, truly a very mild winter for our area!  Maybe that’s why the gardening bug is biting eh?  The winter storm I mentioned in the video so far has not been much.  Last night we had a little rain, a few snow flurries this afternoon and now more rain.  It’s funny what the weathermen are calling storms this year!