As January ends, the threat of frost is nearly over, so think of mid-February as a good time to plant a spring garden (in my experience, even though we have hot days in January). We have a long weekend over Presidents’ Day (Scottish Festival), it often rains then, and that’s a good time to plant vegetables and anything you want to grow. Now is a good time to add free coffee grounds from Starbucks and mix the soil well; and if you want, Armstrong’s sells Red Wiggler earthworms to work the soil, and they multiply. I added 110 to my garden, and still find their descendants when I dig. L.A. Basin clay needs a lot of work: try to go at least a foot down, to become arable and fertile. Before I grew my first real garden, I worked the soil for 6 months first (honest), and it’s been productive for 10 years.
It’s “depth.”
