Getting ready for Spring

The snow is thick and blowing around but I think it is a good time to start planning for Spring planting. I always plan things now so I have a nice record of the things I want to get done. It seems like when the time comes I have a long list and only some of those tasks fit into my long term plans.

This year I want to overseed my hay field and put in some new fences for the horse pasture. I need to fix the raised bed gardens so they are ready when it is time to plant. I have many such tasks I need to complete so things will be ready later.
Not too green, but the thing is that if you plan what you, then you can make your plans green. Choosing the plan of action that will do the least damage to the Earth and maybe even make an improvement. Choosing materials that will reuse old equipment, recycle packaging, and save energy because I have all the pieces on hand so I don’t have to run to the store in the middle to get parts or run out of something. It all counts up.

One of my projects will be planting about 100 trees, mostly hardwoods, around the farm in places where the old trees have died and gone down. We used to have a big pasture full of maple trees, they were huge old trees, they slowly died over the last few years, storms and cattle did the rest. Well now we need to replant, so I am putting maples back in there plus a few hickory and apple trees. We always used to replant a tree when it went down unless it was in a bad place or needed to come down. I got away from doing that. Now I want to get going on replanting and restoring the forest to what it used to be.

Think Green. Be Green.

Kraig Geise - Senior Internet Analyst