Drying Soil

This summer we will wish for rain like we’ve had lately. For now it has been keeping the soil too wet to till. Yesterday (Thursday) the ground in the garden and a front flower bed were too wet to till. The front yard, that just needs enough tilling to be able to rake smooth, was tilled. The tilling was started 4 months ago, but “projects” have gotten in the way of completion. Now it has to be raked and then it will be ready for grass seed.

Hopefully the front flower bed will be ready to till this afternoon. That soil drains really fast. If no rain comes the garden will be tilled Saturday. Then some new beds will be built and filled with mushroom compost and dirt. The compost from the bins is almost gone. There are probably 2 wheelbarrows full left. It takes 1 wheelbarrow load to refresh a bed. It takes 4 to make a new bed.

The 10 day weather forecast calls for no freezing weather after today until St Patty’s day. That forecast is very frequently wrong, especially this time of year. I am resisting the urge to set out some summer crops. Even if the weather stays warm, it really doesn’t speed the harvest. The potatoes for the spring planting still need to be planted.



David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/