While the COVID-1984 lockdown madness has been interesting to say the least, working from home full-time has totally changed the gardening process. The biggest change being able to keep a closer eye on things like applying organic pest control on an almost daily basis (due to poor persistence and rain shower wash-off). And slipping out at lunch time to do some daily weed pulls. This makes weekend maintenance much easier.
The first year (2020) was novel enough to keep me motivated. But as the pandemic dragged into the 2021 growing season, I got a bit lazy with secession planting and maximizing output. And I just didn't have the enthusiasm to do any posts. But as Biden-flation rears its ugly head, I hope to do a better job this season of keeping all aspects of the patch in full production.
So yesterday (March 23) was the first turn over of the over-wintered rye cover crop. The key to this process is to cut back the growth before attempting to till. Otherwise you get a mess tightly wrapped around the tiller tines and a gumming up of the whole process. I used the weed whacker to make quick work of this. Then its two rounds with the tiller.
Before and after shots.
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