Home | How It Works | Ideas | Calendar | Newsletter | Contact Hodgson Biologic Calendar Upcoming Events 5/24 Growing Edibles / Small Gardens 5/31 Weed I.D. and Control 6/7 Shade Gardening Hodgson Biologic 2 Klarides Village Drive Box 205 Seymour, Connecticut 06483 203-888-3898 In Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley February, 2009 Show Full Year Event: Collecting Materials Date: February 14th, 2009. Category: Garden Tasks In these parts, it took a little over two days for the snow to be all but gone. It's still early, but the list of things that can be done grows daily. Add to the list: collect materials for the garden. Are peas, tomatoes, squash, other vining plants planned for the garden this year? They need support. The list of materials you will need and the structures you use to support them are limited only by the imagination. Do you tend toward the rustic, the hand-hewn? Locate eastern red cedar or young black locust trees that are in someone's way and offer to take them off of their hands. Now is the time! (Please be safe. Remember eye and face protection, gloves, heavy boots, don't work alone, don't push past your limits.) Perhaps you excel at finding alternative uses for old wrought iron furniture and fixtures. If you have a welding shop, so much the better! What about those saplings that need to make way for berry bushes? If they are a flexible species, you can try your hand at bent wood craft. Perhaps you prefer the clean, milled look of lumber. Time to get the 2" x 2" and 4" x 4" and 2" x 8" pieces you will need for raised beds, trellises and arbors. Don't forget the hardware and make sure you have all the right drill bits! Speaking of raised beds, do you have enough compost, peat, coarse vermiculite, or other materials you need for optimum plant growth? How do your hoses look? Are you going to try soaker hoses or drip lines this year? Have you measured how much you will need? Or perhaps you like the natural, ancient olla approach to irrigation. A few other materials are poles, markers, row covers, edging materials, starter pots, writing implement (some love sharpies, others use large pencils), dibbles, pest barriers (diatomaceous earth, chicken wire, deer fence) and don't forget the notebook to keep track of what you do. February, 2009 Show Full Year

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