I sat down to respond and went to sleep.

I like to add to my soil anytime that I think it needs something, but I like to add with organic matter. The county agent thinks that is how I got my P and K got so high. For years I added shredded oak leave to my soil. This is coal mining country and the oak leaves came from around an old Strip mine. I have tried lowering my P and K, but that is a tough job. The only thing that I tried that seemed to help is to grow something like corn, the feed the corn stalks to the cattle, but when I added the hay ring scrap back to the garden my P and K would stay high, of course there was a lot of manure in the hay ring scrap also.

This is where the edge of my south garden use to be, and where I would stick the Egyptian walking onions to get them out of the way. Onions are a heavy feeder, and you can tell that these onions are not very hungry, but I have given them a small amount of nitrogen.

The 3 bags of potting soil will be used to try to improve a row I plan on building for squash. I no longer have hay rings to clean around to make compost.

This is a picture of my 4 rows of sweet potatoes. The first row ( closest to the camera) was planted last, but are the best looking plants. None of this area has been fertilized, but I have tilled in some leaves and grass that I picked up with the lawnmower, and the tops of the onions that were cut from the onions in the picture above. I cut over 225 onions and tossed the tops south of me as I was sitting at the onion row. I also added a bag of potting soil per row of potatoes, hopefully to make the potatoes easier to dig, my soil packs like a rock.

When I get this tractor running I will try to do a better job with soil prep. Would you believe that I pulled this tractor out of the way and mowed several weeks ago, and the weeds and grass are about to take it over? We have had so much rain it has been hard to get the garden ready and keep the lawn mowed.

My Parisian cucumbers are just now reaching for the trellis.

I don't even have a trellis for the Straight Eight, and Long Green. I have the material cut, but the trellis wont build itself.

Some how I have got my Dwarf Sweet Sue, and the Fred's Tie Dye tomatos plants mixed up. I have never grown either one before, and what I have I cant tell them apart. I plan on bringing some to the fling. They are pretty plants, and if you take any, be ready for a surprise,

I want a dwarf variety. I’ve never grown one so I hope there’s an extra

Jennifer, I have some for you to, but I am embarrassed that I cant tell which is which. I don't know if I mixed them up, or the people picking through them. I have some containers with no tag at all, but I still have too many plants.

I have some lettuce to pull also, its too bad that I don't have any chickens or rabbits to feed it to.

Everyone be careful today. Right now I’ve got Oklahoma Gardening on tv, and Damon Lane on the ipad. And cleaning the kitchen. I’m nervous after losing last years garden to the Fathers Day storm. 11am and already tornado warnings out west.

I can remember one year we were talking and joking around with Dawn about little boats for our veggies, we may need to start building boats again, it looks like we have a lot of rainy days for the next two weeks.

Yes we do too. Rain is forecasted almost every day and my ground is as spongy as it can be. I pulled a half a gallon of carrots today and put them in a jar to ferment with dill red onion and garlic. It is the easiest way to preserve food and so healthy. I had hoped to get this ferment done so I could bring it to the spring fling but I am not sure if it will be ready in time.

This is the DollarTree cloche

They work great for me to put over small

plants for protection from weather or rabbits -they have adjudtable vent on top and at end of season I just wash, dry, stack and save for next year. Amazon sells a similar product but only 1/2 the size. I consider them a good investment

Well I squeaked by again. The temp in this valley will often get colder then the forecasted temperature for Ft. Smith. The forecast for Ft. Smith was 39 last light, the records for last night show that Ft. Smith hit a low at 6 am of 40 degrees. My min/max shows that I had a low of 33.

I left some of my plants outside last night in what I though might be a warmer spot. I don't know what the temp in the garden, or the area where my plants were, but all look well this morning.

I do not feel safe in this valley to plant summer plants till after May 1, but it looks safe till Oct. now. I carried in enough plants last night to have back-up plants, and enough plants to give away on May 4.

I hope to start planting sweet potatoes very soon, and I still have some peppers and tomatoes that I want to plant. I had 4 plants that produced very well last year. I took very good care of the 4 plants, and per Sq. Ft. of space they out produced my other sweet potatoes by 5 to 1.

Whew...that air temp overnight dipped right down. They nailed it here with a low of 38F. I'm sure all the newly planted warm season stuff appreciate that.

We've been running ragged lately. The two weekends before, we we're out west in Waynoka & Okeene. Pair that with baseball going full-on right now. This weekend, we were outside working to catch up. The wind still sucks! So ready for that to calm down.

We've got a full garden now with only about 4 eggplants to add when they get a bit bigger. We put down a couple of double rows of sweet corn this year, so I'm hoping that doesn't bring in the worms. Last time we did corn, the worms exploded. BT & Spinosad are great, I'm sure, but the timing has to be pretty spot on.

On the cool season stuff, I've got onions that are a little behind due to me burning the original planting and re-planting a lot in early March. I'm trying to push them with nitrogen, but have to be careful not to burn again. The cabbage is getting big and the broccoli look pretty good so far.

Funny that there has been a lot of talk about mulch. Last season, I removed a lot of rocks out of the front beds and replaced it with pine bark. Last week, we saw a bunch of weird looking stuff that looked like spray foam except it was white on the outside. Turns out it is called "slime mold" and I guess it was in the mulch when we put it down? Strange looking stuff, but apparently harmless.

We've been mulching the garden walkways with pine bark and then mulching the planted rows with goat bedding. I'm about wore out from that and still have over half to go. It makes it much cleaner, i'll say that. If I don't spray glyphosate around the border, I'll be pulling bermuda until the 1st freeze. I gotta draw the line somewhere, because I'm only one guy.