Good soil and warm weather

Spring Spring Spring! Today is beautiful, yesterday equally so. It's dreadfully hard to stay inside when you're craving a vitamin D fix.

Our wait is over.......for now.  We all know the vagaries of Spring in the Rockies which means we could get a 10” snowfall this weekend.
Did you know there are actually 8 seasons in Colorado? 

Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring, Winter, Spring, Winter, Spring...  But still, for those who like Fun-In-The-Garden-Time, it’s okay now to work the soil on south-facing sites, in the Mid-valley to Glenwood area.  Go ahead and savor the smell of good soil!

I am an adamant advocate (try saying that 3 times real fast. No really, try it now!) for creating great soil first, a great garden second. This allows plants to thrive, and is why some gardens look so wonderful the first season. 

Here is what the soil in a customer’s new veggie garden bed looks like right now, after just one year of improving it..............................

Beautiful tilth, a wonderful loam. Because the garden was "put to bed" with care in late Fall, it took only 15 delightful minutes to prepare the entire 14' x 7' garden yesterday. And it was a pleasure to work with the soil!  No clay! Tons of earthworms, though this bed didn’t even exist a year ago.

And much to my surprise, look how well the carrots that were “stored” in the ground (okay, I forgot to pull them!!) all winter fared when dug up yesterday, March 15th.  Still crisp and delicious.

If your soil doesn’t look like this in your most important garden areas, it should be improved this Spring. Stay tuned for a line-up of my favorite soil additives. Don’t feel like digging? Call us to do it for you, at our special Early Spring Rate!