Last minute garden additions

New NO MOW ZONE around the base of the two huge sugar maples. Grass barely grows, there is some ground cover vines that should spread to fill it if not mowed, and perhaps we can drop in random shade loving plants. Or just let it go all natural. Used logs from the branches downed two years ago in the ice storm to outline the area.

New bed, pre-compost...because more seeds were bought than we had room for plants.

So this is what the back yard and vegetable garden looks like at the beginning of the spring season. Just a few things poking up and growing at this point.

Spring workday in the garden

This Saturday in the garden was an EARLY one. 7AM because I had to get to a mini-retreat for the county party and Kyle...wait, I don't know why Kyle was up that flipping early. Anyways, some early work plus returning in the afternoon made for a big jump start to the spring.

Prepping the existing beds this year meant raking off the leaf cover and the big chunks that had "risen" through the compost. The loose soil barely needed a two inch deep raking to fluff the soil for planting.

Not purely the square foot method, but marking the areas this year with string helps us know where and when we are planting what.

Most of these long strings have quick maturing radishes planted under them for a living divider. Several large section of lettuces planted as well.

Early Direct Seed: carrots

Early Direct Seed: leeks (that's the garlic in the background)

Onion rows as dividers.

Old fence sections for trellis. This will be for cucumbers.

Planning helps....this map changed several times and is bound to change again.

Just another day of glass :-(