Episode-389- Ten Gardening Steps to Get Ready for Spring [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIt is March 2nd and much of the North East just got over “Snowercane 10″, heck I am in Texas and I had an inch of snow last week and over 10 inches just two weeks ago. The northern half of the country has ground that is currently still frozen and I want to talk about gardening? You bet! The thaw is coming and odds are many are already behind the power curve.
Join me today as we discuss these steps
- Draw a sketch of your property including energy patterns
- Pick a few edible perennials to get up and running this year
- Estimate and plan for your planting dates
- Set up your late frost contingency plans
- Go through your potting equipment, clean, sort, organize
- Walk your entire property with new eyes
- Plan at least one passive water harvesting project for 2010
- Plan or begin the development of predator habitat
- Identify what is growing now and learn from that
- Plan one “hard scape” project for 2010
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- Members Support Brigade
- TSP Gear Shop
- Join Our Forum
- MURS-Radio.com – (sponsor of the day)
- Safecastle – (sponsor of the day)
- Create your own graph paper – LOTS of options
- Forum post with my simple grow light system
- Good frost date tool from Victory Seeds
- Mother Earth News Article on Planting Dates
- Excellent Video from Bill Mollison on Urban Permaculture
- 9 Free Catalogs You Should Get for Permaculture Plantings
- Mastering the 22 Rifle (my eBook due out soon)
- Ron Hood’s Survival Quarterly Magazine
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