Garden Prep 2017

Keeping the garden site “clean” until we can trust Mother Nature not to turn a cold shoulder to us Mid-Michigan gardeners.  Lots of funs stuff planned this year – some of which is already flourishing indoors.  The list includes watermelon, pumpkin, cantaloupe, jalapeno pepper, onions, garlic and a variety of herbs.

 

Tractor operator, Mike Tepper, seems to be a bit chilly on this late-April afternoon.  But that’s not it:  It’s a dastardly swarm of black flies.  These pests have become particularly annoying as a result of huge doses of rain this spring.  Fortunately, the black flies tend to die off after a month or so.  Then it’s skeeters followed by the attack of the deer flies.

 

It’s headnets, potions, and lotions ’till fall.  Wind can equalize things better than any of that stuff, though.