Cleaning the graden beds

It was a busy weekend for me.  I was successful in accomplishing my goal of cleaning out my garden beds and getting them partially ready for the planting season. 

Here is what I did. 

• Raked up remaining leaves
• removed any access dead plants I did not pull up in the fall
• Tilled the ground and then raked if over again

What is really encouraging is that after doing the first raking, I noticed I had some growth of arugula from last year as well as mixed salad greens.  I was careful to not till the areas where I had the new salad growth coming back.  This will make part of my job easier when I begin planting more lettuce.

My plan for this coming weekend will be to add fresh compost to the beds and begin to plant additional lettece.  In addition to this, I am also planning to add some wood ash to my beds.  Lastly I intend to put some netting around my garden beds as well.

There are two cats that the neighbors next door own that love to use my garden beds as a toilet, so I need to keep them out.  If you have any ideas on how I can keep cats away from my garden, please share.

I will post a few photos of the cleaned up beds later this week.