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Hi Sheila - we must be neighbors, I live in Eagle too!  I'm off of Floating Feather across from the Middle School!  Looks like you have some land there too.  I have an acre, but haven't had much of an opportunity to have any success at my veggie gardens. My son and I built a raised bed and bought some soil and compost from Zamzows but haven't had much success at that either.  The year before last I put the tomatoes in the planter and they went crazy, but the growing season was so short, I had a ton of green tomatoes!  What's your secret for getting rid of the noxious weed seeds in the ground? I thought by burning the fall cuttings and some tree prunings would kill of the seeds....not so, I think it only encouraged them to grow...the goat heads came back with a vengence....any hot tips for me?

Hi Sheila - we must be neighbors...as I live in Eagle too!  I live on one acre and about 1/2 of it is an old orchard and half of that area is just dirt and weeds. At one time it was a vegetable garden, but it has all gone to weeds. Right now the gophers and goat heads and other noxious weeds are running amuck. The first year I was there, I rototillered about a 1/4 acre and the soil was beautiful and fluffy, but when I got down into the dirt with my hands, I met up with stinging weeds, goat heads, and God knows what else. After that I used gloves...learning lesson #1!  The first year my veggi garden seemed to do ok, but far from successful. The squirrels and deer had a pretty good feast. The next year my son built a raised bed for me and we hauled in about a yard of Zamzow's top soil and compost combo.  Not allot of success with veggies - I don't think that soil is all it's cracked up to be...weeds don't hardly grow in it. I've even added manure and compost...no luck. Can you give me any tips on what I should do to get this soil turned around so something other than goat heads will grow? Oh, don't try to burn out goat heads, it only makes them grow better!  I made a burn pile in the area where I want to grow veggies and thinking I would burn the goat head seeds...probably not a good idea...this summer the goad heads grew back with a vengence blanketing the area where the burn pile was...Lesson #2, don't try to burn out goat heads!