Happy New Year! I know it’s mid-February but it’s still a new year.<\/p>\n
Between planning and dreaming, I’ve mostly just been dreaming. I have a big project in mind but I don’t want to allow that to make me late with planting as I am year after year. The problem with that is, the project involves raised beds that will also need to be planted.<\/p>\n
It’s also time to put my dreams (and research) of my future North American road trip (followed by a mini homestead\/farm) on hold so I can concentrate on getting the garden done in a more timely manner.<\/p>\n
Once again I searched for stand-alone garden planning software for my PC. I found one that seemed good. It is based online but optionally has a locally installed version of the planner itself, with the data still stored online. I downloaded and installed it but the program doesn’t want to work, only the online version does. Anxious to get going I started doing some planning on the online version but that’s not really what I want. So back to the drawing board, or at least to the other online version (for loyalty reasons. \ud83d\ude42 ).<\/p>\n
There is still half a row of potatoes that never got dug up. With my broken ankle, my son and mother did a lot of the final harvesting, but I didn’t push the potato issue and so it didn’t get done.\u00a0 I did ask Mr. Googlesearch if it was ok to leave the potatoes in the ground over winter but got so many varying answers that I still don’t know. I guess it depends on your zone, your area of your zone, your area of the area you’re in, what kind of winter you’ve had; and if they do survive, leaving them in the ground will encourage pests – I never even heard<\/em> of wireworms. Jeesh.<\/p>\n We got some below-zero (\u00b0F) deep freezes, a few semi-thaws with lots of rain, some snow, and so on. The part of the garden where the potatoes are got flooded, and re-frozen, rinse and repeat, and it’s not over yet. So I’m not expecting much from them. I just hope I don’t get those bugs.<\/p>\n Out comes the boxes of seeds and an organized inventory will begin soon. The stores have the seeds and some\/most of the seed starting supplies on display as if to say “Wayne, get going!!”<\/p>\n So that’s what I have to do. I need to get ready to grow food, which includes getting my ankle and left leg (and the rest of my body \ud83d\ude41 ) in shape. It also includes finishing the chicken coop, building their yard and getting the chickens. Much to do.<\/p>\n TTFN homesteader, van dweller and full-time RV’er vlogs and blogs.\u00a0 I’ll catch up with you later.<\/p>\n I will update (with a new post) soon.<\/p>\n Happy Garden Planning!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Happy New Year! I know it’s mid-February but it’s still a new year. 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