Spring garden

What's in: 

• 2 short rows of peas
• 1 short row of Buttercrunch lettuce
• 1 short row of Swiss chard

(I will, perhaps, be adding rows of lettuce to spread this harvest out a bit.)

• 1 long row of carrots
• 1 long row of onions
• 1 long row of potatoes

(Check out this really cool link on growing 100 pounds of potatoes in 4 square feet.  I might have to try this.)

Also, tomatoes, peppers, and asparagus are planted in their little seedling trays.  Nothing has come up yet, but they are being encouraged to grow.

I've put in about 7 more hours of sweat labor, mostly double ditching the garden to dig manure and leaves into the soil and loosen things up for planting. And I bought a bag of potting soil ($2.75) to plant the peppers and tomato seeds in since the instructions specified "sterile soil."  

Also, I've discovered that Milo remembers well how to climb the fence and get out, so now when I'm gardening, I've got him on a chain in the yard.  :(

The weather is getting pretty decent here, with temps getting into the fifties during the day.  The porch has all of those big picture windows, and if the sun is shining it gets warm enough for seedlings to be set out by mid-morning.  Some of our crocus are still out, but we've also seen tulips, hyacinths and daffodils.  A few of our bushes are budding.  I am grateful for spring.

tags: garden  gardening