Since it rained last week it was a good time to take the tiller into the yard to both break up an old compost pile and till some rows in the raised gardens. I moved two wheelbarrows-full of compost to the front beds, mixed in some amendments (greensand and lavasand) and tipped it into the beds. It was getting warm so those things were put away and later I'll go out and get some seeds started in pots and get the bedding plants put in. Maybe even make a run to the neighbor's yard for some of her free mulch.

I'm doing a low-till bed this year - I dug along the paths for the plants and used the weed eater to scalp the rest. I'll mulch deeply around crops to smother the weeds I cut off at ground level. By the time crops are big and can hold their own above the weeds it isn't such an issue if the weeds are there.