Time to rev 'er up

Can you believe that I still have one tomato from our garden still ripening on my kitchen counter? We had a bumper crop of green tomatoes before our late freeze last year, and I'm just now finishing them up. We still have a decent supply of okra and kale in the chest freezer, and I still have two jars of homemade marinara sauce in the pantry.

There's nothing more wonderful than an early Spring in the South. Two weeks ago, New Daddy tilled our 18' x 40' plot. The following week, we started implementing our new weed control plan, based on Debi Pearl's garden instructions in this video. We made two trips to Walmart to get cardboard boxes and another trip to the feed store for hay to hold the boxes down. We had a pretty wild thunderstorm this week, and the boxes stayed put. Yessss!

I think this year's weed control system will be far more effective than the nasty weed "fabric" that we laid down in gapped rows last year. The weeds took over the gaps, and I lost the battle.

In other news, Precious has asked for her own garden plot. Also, I'm looking forward to growing an heirloom variety of okra that doesn't toughen as it grows. Not Clemson spineless, I tell you!

Thus the cycle restarts...