Game bird, I'll have to stick with planning and dreaming for the present time, because I'm still harvesting since the plants in all my beds but one are still producing. With almost 5" of rain in the last week, including more that fell early this morning here, it is too wet to work our soil anyway and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

I have water standing in the pathways between the raised beds and the ground is very squishy and mucky, but the soil in the beds themselves are only wet and not soggy.

I don't know what you mean when you say the raised beds didn't work for you.....did they drain too quickly? I couldn't grow anything in wet springs/summers here without raised beds because the excess moisture in a 'good' year drowns everything.

Dawn

I like planting in the ground better than I like raised beds, but my DH built me one large bed for winter greens and those very early spring things when the ground is frequently too wet. I also have four big nursery pots that held trees, that I use for early things. I had hoped to build a greenhouse type top for the raised bed, but right now it is just a make-shift hoop house with construction plastic that isn't working too well. All these things just take time.

I would like to be working on my soil but it is too wet to do very much right now, so I just have to look at the new catalogs, go through my seed boxes, and wait for my "trade" package to arrive so I can see what I got.

I am still willing to do a seed trade on this forum but I have been waiting until everyone's garden was finished for the winter so everyone has time to play. I think a few people are still harvesting and "putting by", but maybe we can do it soon. I am involved in a veggie trade right now.