The garlic popped up about 10 days ago, right on schedule with the daffodils. With the 60+ degree temperatures we've had and the amazing weather forecast, I decided it was time to put the onions in the ground. This is probably 4 weeks earlier than I would have normally planted them, however everything is defrosted and the forecast is for 60 degree temps for the foreseeable future.
For those of you who don't know, I have a square foot garden, which is raised beds, 4x4 feet split into 1 foot squares. I planted onions in 12 squares, 9 per square, giving me 108 potential onions. Half are sweet onions, the other half are red onions. I'm looking forward to seeing how they do since I've never planted onion sets before, always planted seeds.
I also turned my compost and started cleaning out the big stall in the barn. The big stall is 10x40 and has 4 years of horse bedding and manure in it, left over from the previous owner. This is going to be my wood shop, so it is time for it to get cleaned out. I might have to create another compost bin in order to hold everything and have one for rotation. I definitely need to get a chipper/shredder. I've been putting it off, but I need to shred the left over plants from last years garden and it would be nice to shred the manure/bedding that i'm cleaning out.
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