Garden is ready for spring!

Well we spent all last weekend and every night this week getting the garden ready for spring plantings. It is 2 1/2 times the size it was last year. We have 9 raised beds, and an area for tomatoes, beans and melons. Adam took the day off Thursday to till the garden and get it ready before it rained . We used the frame from our makeshift greenhouse to twine between the frames for the beans and peas trellis, it looks like it will work perfectly.

The garden is about 40 feet wide and 70 feet long. We made a barrier with twine to keep the deer out and planted a parameter of onions, marigolds and aramanth to keep the smaller critters out.

We planted our Cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage seedlings yesterday and seeded the lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, kale, radishes, beets and peas. We are planting some items in plastic covered dirt in an attempt to keep the weeds down, soil warm and dirt off the plants.

We also seeded our tomatoes (12 varieties) and peppers ( 5 varieties) inside last night and they will go out in a month and a half.

We will have abut 21 tomato plants and hope to have enough of a few things to try out the market this summer.

Today was our day of rest. We took a nap with the pups and went for a long walk in the 75 degree weather.
It is going to be stormy this week so everything will get a good water and we will get to rest at night.

Until next time......

Ahhh Spring is coming.....

We think we made it through the winter and finally Spring is almost here. The weather has been much better, it was 80 the other day and we can finally get outside to start getting the garden ready for another season. We are enlarging the size of the garden, we plan to double it this year and have more raised beds. We have already started our cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower inside and the sprouts are almost ready to go outside in a few weeks.

Sunday we built 7 of the 10 raised beds and started plotting out the garden so next weekend (if its nice out and dry) we can till and get the onions in the ground. We spent the winter making compost so we have lots of good nutritious dirt to start the season. We also left the frame from the greenhouse up so we can climb the beans and peas on it. We lost the greenhouse to some strong winds back in December. We are doubling the size of the garden this year. The one we had last year will be all tomatoes, peas and beans and the new one will be all raised beds with lettuce, onions, squash, cucumbers, radishes, beets, watermelons etc.

Its still to iffy to plant much right now, this March is colder than normal and we still have the threat of cold nights and frost so we will keep our fingers crossed it will be warmer soon.

Adam is crawling out of his skin waiting to get out and plant. He has all kinds of ideas this year and wants to get started.

The dogs are ready for spring too, they added on a few extra pounds this year. Izzy is now 9 lbs and Rudiger is 20lbs. Fatties.....

They will be happy to start walking again when its warmer.

Uncle Danen comes over and plays with them a lot. Izzy likes to sit right on top of tummies. Rudiger likes to stand in front of whatever we may be trying to watch.

That all for now. We will be updating more as we get the garden going and can get out more often.