Merry Tiller
This year I started off with the usual lawn care, first I raked the lawn cleaning the remaining leaves from the previous fall and clearing the dead grass away. Then I spread lime pellets with the garden spreader to adjust the pH of the soil and then planted grass seed also with the spreader.
For the vegetable garden, I rented a “Merry Tiller” from a local rental shop. This wa a “mid’ tiller with the tines in the middle, the previous machine was a “rear” tiller with tines in the rear. There is another model with tines in the front which I haven’t tried yet, the mid tiller worked fine after familiarizing myself with its operation. it took me two hours to complete a 20 X 40 foot garden willing down to about 6 inched and retilling the area several times.
I planted half of the garden with corn. i mixed two varieties, Peaches and Cream Bi- Color Sweet Corn along with Silver Queen Hybrid Sweet Corn from the Weeks Seed Company. last year I tried “Kandy Korn”.
20 x 40 Cornfield
In the smaller garden I call the Weather Garden because that is where my weather station is located.
I tilled this garden, the smaller of the two gardens, maybe 100 square feet. I planted garden beans and mammoth sunflowers.
Weather Garden
raked and ready for plantiung!
Tomatoes planted using plastic garbage bags to reduce weeds
