Spring

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With two consecutive days of 50 degree weather (balmy huh!) my thoughts are turning to gardening. I am itching to get out and get my spring garden planted! I love picking early lettuce and spinach, and watching for those little pea shoots to come up! In past years I would be out as early as this planting all my cool weather crops, but this year we have so much snow (say prayer of thanks) that I am sure it will be a few more weeks before I can go and work my soil. This year I am thinking of doing some box gardens. I have a small garden plot in my yard, but I want to do more. Last year I had my PIC dig up a bunch of grass to make my garden bigger and he told me that after this he would be doing no more digging up grass and expanding gardens! (can you hear him putting his foot down? ha! I think for the last 7 years I have had him digging up grass to expand either the garden or a flower bed, the poor guy is plain sick of it!) So, to get around his decree I am going to try box gardening, I won’t have to pull up any grass, just plop the boxes down, round-up the grass underneath, and vola, we are good to go! Now I just have to convince my PIC that this will be a good idea…….

I can see my mom, shaking her head, saying “you are just like your Dad!”

6 thoughts on “Spring”

  2. I am looking forward to digging in the dirt too…peas are my favorite spring fling. I really want to see your daffodils when they come up. 100 wow. Remind me to tell you about my ranch daffodil story…it’s sad.

  3. Yay! Garden boxes rock! I plan to update mine this year. I used fencing wood for them 2 years ago and it’s already splitting apart. This year I plan to get that pretty white vinyl to construct them. The other good news is you have about the best compost in the world, which will quickly fill those boxes – no digging required! Just mix equal parts compost and peat moss. Here’s a great website to get you started:
    http://www.squarefootgardening.com/

    You’re going to be shocked at how much produce you’re going to get!

  4. I don’t know why we put any grass in our yard. It will so all be covered with garden boxes and a zillion rabbits. As long as I can feed the lettuce to my millipedes and roaches.