How to Prepare Your Garden for Summer

Spring is in full swing and it's almost time to get those starter plants and seeds into the ground. Here are a few things you can do to get your garden spot ready for a productive season.

1. Clear the area
Over the winter months, your garden has probably collected debris that needs to be removed before you get started with working the ground. Remove all sticks, twigs, garbage, etc. Also, the wet spring weeks are the
best time to pull weeds and brush that grew up toward the end of last year's growing season. The ground is soft and the dead growth is brittle, so get to work removing everything that is dead or a weed. After you are done, if you do not need to till, rake the entire area. After you have raked you will be able to pick out areas in which grass clods or root systems have grown. Remove these.