LadyZ just walked in with two ripe tomatoes from the greenhouse. And this isn't a heated greenhouse now, propane is just too high for that, so we just use it like a big coldframe. Warmest winter yet here to still be getting tomatoes. We keep some in there and push it as long as possible, usually by December that's it. Be a hoot if they just keep going! (long range plan is a combo of woodchip heat, plus make a kiln, burn crap wood to heat the kiln, blow warm kiln exhaust air into the greenhouse on real cold nights.)
I did one garden spot outside so far with the rototiller, but it is just too dang muddy. Another garden spot I am trying just a heaped up area of old hay, just dump it right on over the weeds and stuff, leftover cleanings from the barn and the hay rings, stuff the cows don't eat. I'm putting that stuff like a foot deep all over, packed, then open up little planting areas and slide the started plants in. That's going to be my melon patch this year. I did it years ago whej I lived up north and it worked good. Another area like that I am doing the same thing, just with spuds, and keep adding more layers of loose hay as the vines grow up.
Oh, BTW for you gardening geeks. I found out you could resprout celery. Just do like a pineapple, take the cut off stalk end, the part that is left over after you cut off what you eat, the old root area, and slap it in some water or wet dirt. We have one sprouting and growing good now. Two days to start sprouting, tons of little new leaves on it. Gonna do a bunch of them in an earthbox.
