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Spring has sprung! That’s what the calendar says, and if the forecast I am reading today as I write is correct, it will truly feel like it has sprung. With the arrival of spring and warm weather, there is a temptation to immediately jump into gardens and start digging. However, that could create a problem if soils are still quite wet. Even if not digging or tilling, just walking on wet soil can disrupt its structure due to compaction. The same also applies to stomping around on moisture-saturated lawns. The technique I use to determine when garden soil is ready to be tilled is one I learned as a child watching old Western movies. In many movies, there was a scene where early settlers moving west would leap from their covered wagons and scoop up a handful of soil. Of course, they were getting a sense of the texture of the soil to determine its value for farming. In our gardens, we can use the same technique … minus the covered wagon. Simply scoop a handful of soil and squee

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