I think I am probably like most every other gardener in the northern hemisphere right now, perusing through seed catalogs trying to decide what I am going to grow this year. There sure isn’t much going on around the homestead otherwise.
Wait! That is not really true. My middle son has been working hard all week getting all the leaves cleaned up from our yard. He has dumped many of them in my garden to supplement the wood chips that are already there, but he and his brothers started a fire last night with some of them, as well as some old wood we had in the yard. Besides making a great bonfire for roasting hotdogs and marshmallows, it should have left behind a considerable amount of ashes which will be tossed on the garden soon.
Did you know that wood ash is a great supplement for the garden? It is often considered so because it is a good source of potash, but it also contains minerals such as iron, manganese, zinc, copper, and more. In other words, wood ash helps add back the trace minerals into your soil that are so often depleted and ignored, which makes for healthier food.
The other big thing around here is the beginning of winter sowing. I had intended on completing the first round of winter sowing last week and getting a blog post up on it, but that didn’t happen. I am expecting to finish it today though, so if I find the time, there will be a post this week. I also have a few other posts I am working on that I cannot seem to find the time to finish. May this week allow time for that as well.