Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Spring Equinox 2021
Looking for hope after a long isolating year plus, Spring hopes eternal and Saturday, March 20th, is the Equinox.
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”
Happy Vernal Equinox! That’s a funny word, vernal. The word means ‘fresh’ or ‘new’ and related to Spring.
Frost depths vary! Check this link from the National Weather Service frost depths.
I know the urge is strong to get out in the yard and do SOMETHING, but working wet soil will pack soil particles tightly together leaving less room for air and water to penetrate. Two very important ingredients to plant production!
Those dirt clods you create become hard as rocks and are nearly impossible to break up. If you compact your soil like that it takes years of adding organic matter to try to recreate the healthy soil your plants love.
So hold tight until things dry out… you CAN cut back your perennials though…
Some folks have already seen crocuses coming up!
