My wife wishes to garden again after a 35 year gap. Specifically, WHAT are the steps and WHEN to do it for a fall garden this year. Selected area is grass and not broken up in the 20 years
we have had the place. There is plenty of sun on this area and water close at hand.

I have 2 bottom plow and disc with tractor. My thoughts is to use the bottom plow, let it lay several days, and then disc the heck out of it. Mix a bit of fresh topsoil, fertilizer, and then disc again.
This to be done toward end of June.

What do you recommend.
Thanks for any input.

Terry

excellent equipment

okra / purple hull peas now

fall veges in mid/late August

and of course, onions the 2nd week of November from Dixondale Farms onions...TX Legends

I went with Mosquetero this year and getting really good size on them.

I don’t like herbicides. I would cover the area with black polyethylene and the heat should kill the existing growth before you start plowing and discing. Have your soil tested to see if you are short on any needed minerals.

15" circumference / 1lb 12oz

i gave my vet a bundle of Tx Legend onion slips and he grew this...said it was not his biggest

i grew one 16 1/2" circumference years ago...made the Dixondale Farms Onions catalog

lots of good onion rings rite-there

I didn’t fertilize this year cause I brought in 2 loads of horse manure and compost

Time for salsa

This heat is putting and end to my tomato harvest. No new blooms.🤬

I'm hurting too. And 1 tree rat is eating them when I got to work every day if I don't pull the pink ones. He's got some lead poisoning in his future if I can see him.

Last salad from the garden for the season. I'm tired of trying to keep things alive in this heat so pulled my lettuce and the tomato plant because this was the last three on it.



Boston Picklers are struggling and I got very few strawberries. And I lost six zucchini plants to something. I'm done!!!!

Next year, my garden will be mostly sweet potatoes - they love this heat.

amazing what full sun does to the garden growth...can't grow squash or okra in Nac under 150ft pine trees

I have the same problem. Going to bait him in tonight and finish him off.

air fryer fried squash...de-dang delicious...instrukshuns for $5

got my garden at the lake growing in full sun, but a dang squirrel is eatin' my green maters...don't say shoot it...God made it for a reason, but NOT to eat the maters that He is growing

is there a squirrel deterrent???