(Are you going try Cabbage Kaitlin this year? Maybe an early placed row cover would protect them from loopers!)
Thanks Pete. It’s going to be a few days to get back to fighting shape but we’re on the mend slowly I think.
I’m not sure what’s going to make it into the garden this time. My garden soil is still all dug up and piled in the field. I need to move the last of it from the front garden, finish leveling the site, lay out where the raised beds are going, and get those built and filled before anything can be planted there.
After having the whole winter to stare at things and ruminate on options I’ve modified my plans a bit - I’m going to make a new space (~5600 sq/ft) for things that are big and unruly - squash, pumpkins, sweet corn, okra, etc. That stuff is going to get its own big garden out behind the barn where it won’t be such an eyesore in the front yard. I need to purchase ten cattle panels and a 12’ pipe gate so that area can be fenced off from the horses. I’m also giving serious consideration to moving the chicken coop out there so I can set them up with more outdoor space to scratch and dig and do chicken things.
If everything goes well I should at least have tomatoes/cukes/sweet corn/squash in the new back garden. The new raised bed garden in front might not get any plantings until fall. We’ll see...