Friday, March 23, 2012

Garden is started!

I was so happy these last few days to have some warm weather with the sun shining. One of my favorite things to do is garden–both vegetable and flower gardening.
Tuesday, my father came over and helped prepare our vegetable garden for planting. We have decided to expand the garden another twenty feet, bringing the total space to 50' x 15', which is a pretty nice size. I plotted out the space, and planted the onion sets that afternoon yet. I also started some seeds for other plants that will go out once we are past the last frost date for our area. The seeds included tomato, pepper, cabbage, celery and artichoke (which is a stretch, but will hopefully work). I am hoping that tomorrow I can get the peas and lettuces planted, as well as work on some raised beds that we want to create for root veggies and herbs. I am going to try and weave the surrounds for the raised beds from fresh cuttings off of trees on our property. I know willow branches would work the best, but I don't have any willows, so I am going to try other fresh cuttings, which will hopefully be supple enough to work. I am hoping to get at least one of the beds completed over the weekend. If I get that far, then I can plant the radishes, carrots, parsnips and beets.
I hope your spring is off to a great start as well!
Here are a couple of photos of the garden with its newly extended section, as well as the seed pots.



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