Yesterday started off with a few sprinkles but by around 10 am the clouds had lifted and the sun came shining in. The HH picked up 2 yards of garden soil for me and get this… He hauled all of it to the back yard for me and filled my garden beds. Wahoo!
I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to try and grow 2 “hills” of pumpkins in this area or plant zucchini in one and finagle some sort of cucumber trellis in the other.
All I know is the garden boxes are full, the bean teepee is set up, and I’m ready to get this garden started.
Instead of growing cabbage, beets, chard and strawberries in the shaded side garden this year, I think I’m going to turn the whole area into a strawberry patch. I planted 50 or so tristar strawberry plants in the spot last spring and they are starting to come back to life. If I let the runners go wild… the whole area should be covered in strawberry plants by fall. Well, that’s what I’m hoping for anyway.
How about you? Is your garden ready to go? Are you ready for this years growing season?
~Mavis
Lisa Millar says
Your raised garden beds look so perfect!
I love the idea of creating the hills! Will file that away in my brain somewhere for next season. (one of my pumpkins has run away up a fence which is kinda cool to watch!!)
My poor garden needs a LOT of cleaning up – the rain has made it weed-city out there!
Enjoy Sunday!
Mavis Butterfield says
Thank you Lisa, you too!
E in Upstate NY says
It snowed [again] last night. Nothing lasts past the morning, but still… Have successfully cleaned 1 flower bed, and started on another. Want to top dress with some compost, have some left over from last fall, but the bucket its in is still frozen!
No rhubarb nor asparagus nubs showing through yet. This is the third year of the asparagus, so am definitely impatient [behaved,didn’t pick any the past years.]
Lilac is surviving the cold, can see the green leaves, but nothing more. Late last fall moved 3 lilacs from pots to the ground. Looks like they all made it. Hope to have at least 1 flower from each this year so I can help remembering the colors. Have lots of daff bulbs coming up under the lilac bushes so have hope there too.
Am afraid of the cold doing the apple tree blossoms in which means no crop come fall. Did some major forsythia bush pruning, so don’t know what kind of spring show will get from that part of the garden.
Supposed to be in the 60s next weekend. Yea!
Mavis Butterfield says
Asparagus! Lucky you. Fingers crossed on those apples. It just wouldn’t’ be fall without them.
Susan says
We had Seedy Sunday in Duncan BC today and I bought 6 lettuces and some cilantro. They are all snuggle in the garden. I hope to plane my one potato in a shopping bag later today.
Susan Altizio says
I planted the zucchini that I started as seed last month, they did so well in the Cali sun and soft rain, but this morning the soil in the 18″ planter was disturbed, thankfully not the plants, so far. My thought were, first a feral cat or perhaps a wild turkey. Since I am an organic gardener, I do not want to use any chemicals, but please, what can I use as a humane deterrent?
Mavis Butterfield says
Hi Susan, I have hear human hair, coffee grounds and citrus peels work as a deterrent for cats. Let me do a little more research though.
Susan says
Thank you. We have coffee grounds every day and at this time of year we eat Clementines, peels will find their way to the planters. We are both due for hair trims, so I will catch all the grey, untreated hair I can manage.
I hear that turkeys scare away other wild birds, of which we a zillions! If you have any further insights, please let me know.
I love your ebooks, and getting them each month, perhaps I will become a real gardener soon. I love that you indicate that each unsuccessful attempt is a lesson, thanks.
Lisa Millar says
Hi – this may or may not be useful – My Aunt Ruby often lays some kind of wire grate around her seed beds and young seedlings to physically prevent the local cats digging where they shouldn’t. She has all sorts of weird recycled ‘wire things’!! The plants grow up through them no worries and can be carefully removed when the plants are big enough if she wants. It works too – they find somewhere easier to dig!
Good luck
Susan says
Thanks, Lisa
This is me looking for all sorts of weird recycled wire things >^..^<
Kayla says
Your garden looks amazing!
It is too cold here yet, sadly. I’m in Pennsylvania (zone 7), but we’ve had temperatures below freezing lately. And with the temps constantly fluctuating (last week was in the 70’s), I’m a bit nervous to stick my sprouts out yet.
Mavis Butterfield says
I think there is definitely a knack for knowing when to plant on the east coast. 😉 The weather patterns can be so whacky over there this time of year.
Julia says
Kale, spinach and lettuce are poking their heads up. Yea!! Love the bean teepee. Just cut down a sapling so now I have a good use for the branches!!