Growing Appetite

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Boe

Brenda

Les

Valria

So much of the spring is used for planning and getting ready.
The daydream of my summer garden starts about an hour after the superbowl.
That is about when I ordered all of these seeds for this years garden, clearly assuming I have a much bigger garden then I have.

Then as the weather allows the readying of the soil starts, adding in the compost that is finished into the ground. There is the small success of planting peas on Presidents day (although as you recall mine went in on March 20th), there is a lot that can be planted starting in April, but I got none of in. I find year after year I am not ready until the beginning of May. I can blame it on my job, but I have to keep the job to pay the mortgage on the garden.

Boe put up a great post a couple days ago on what and when to plant, and I have my garden sketch I drew tonight and all these seeds.
I will plant in the next couple days everything that could have gone in last month and can go in now; onions, leeks, carrots, beets, lettuce, chard, spinach, radish’s. Then on the Memorial day weekend I will plant the warmer weather stuff, the cucumbers, beans, corn, squash. Now you know my planting key, starting on Presidents day and finishing up on Memorial day (give or take a week.)

I will put the tomatoes in earlier then usual. This year when buying the seeds I also bought my tomatoes as starts from Territorial Seed and one is already here and the rest expected any time. I am going to put them out and perhaps cover them with plastic until the nights are warmer.