Just out of curiosity, anyone in the Edmond area do roto tilling if the SHTF? If things start getting any worse we might need to expand past container gardening but do not have a tiller.
You talking tractor or walk behind tilling?
Walk behind. Yard is not big enough for a tractor sized garden.
Doing containers now but can not afford big raised beds. Besides filling these hurt me. Tore the muscle in my left bicep and it is not healed yet.
The bags I’m talking about are super cheap. You could get some dirt, dirt cheap. Also a ground garden will be harder to work.
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We are talking growing a few basics if things get that bad. A couple tomato plants, potatoes, green beans, pintos, blackeyes. Maybe some squash.
There are methods of soil preparation that don’t require tilling.
https://extension.unh.edu/blog/2020/10/low-no-till-gardening
“Soil coverage is a key concept with no and low till gardening. At all times of year, your garden should either have mulched crops, a cover crop, or at least a layer of mulch on top. That mulch can be compost, straw, grass clippings, chopped leaves, or any other suitable organic material available to you. If using an organic mulch instead of cover crops in the fall, it should be left in place over the winter. In the spring, you can peel it away and plant into it. If using compost as a mulch, it can be incorporated in the spring with your broad fork.”
https://extension.unh.edu/blog/2020/10/low-no-till-gardening
“Soil coverage is a key concept with no and low till gardening. At all times of year, your garden should either have mulched crops, a cover crop, or at least a layer of mulch on top. That mulch can be compost, straw, grass clippings, chopped leaves, or any other suitable organic material available to you. If using an organic mulch instead of cover crops in the fall, it should be left in place over the winter. In the spring, you can peel it away and plant into it. If using compost as a mulch, it can be incorporated in the spring with your broad fork.”
if you use grass clippings for mulch is a good way to introduce unwanted Bermuda grass to your garden.
I’d let the lawn clippings dry out before using them for mulch.
