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March is an unsettled month around here.

Some sun, some clouds, occasional rain, and lots of wind. Shucks it has snowed in March, but not much or often.

We had a few days of sun, and I got the grapes pruned and some of the bramble berries. Then it turned cold and windy.

Today it rained a good share of the day. I was glad to be able to work in my warm shop.

When we get a few days of warm it is easy to think it is time to plant something. But even hardy crops that like cool weather need the dirt to get a bit warmer. If it is too cold the seed just sits there.

There are some things I planted last fall: Kale, Garlic, Spinach. They are doing ok, but there is not much growth yet.

The cold frame has salad greens to put I salads. I planted “Cool weather Mesclun” and that is looking pretty good, but most of the growth happened before it turned cold.

But now is a good time to prune, and clean up and get rid of debris that was last year's garden.

I'll get a trailer load of composted manure soon.

Gotta continue to work at improving the dirt.

Last year I put 16 grape prunings into a pot and kept it most and 12 sprouted. I planted some myself and gave the rest away. This year I have more I the pots.

I can always get rid of the excess.