Just finished seed planting! ...What? You can't even see your hand? Me neither.
Well, in what has become a bit too much of a yearly tradition, I finished planting seeds yesterday in the pitch black.
Every year this happens! I get too late of a start, and then I’m outside trying to get it all in the ground…it’s freezing, I’m barefoot, and I’m sowing cabbage seeds by feel because I can hardly see the garden anymore let alone the seeds.
I’m feeling good and satisfied though, because seeding the beds is the culmination of a whole heckuvalotta work: clearing out the raised beds, turning the soil, carting soil around the yard, getting a truckload (1 cubic yard) of compost from a landscape place with my dad, loading it into the wheelbarrow, distributing that into the raised beds and mixing it into the annex pots, digging in the compost, mixing in organic fertilizer, smoothing the beds, and then finally planting the seeds. Shew! I’m bushed, but it was invigorating to be outside moving my body! We were even blessed with *perfect* weather the entire weekend which is no small miracle in the fickle month of March in the Rockies!
I planted lettuce, spinach, radishes, arugula, broccoli raab, beets, onions, garlic, scallions, carrots, cabbage, cilantro, dill, and parsley.
Here are some photos from the weekend:
Getting started: clearing out the beds & turning the soil.
Dug up this very disoriented bumblebee. It's stretching its legs in the picture after taking a good 5 minutes to get its wings flapping again!
Schlepping
Dumping
Mixing
And look at that, I forgot to take an “after” picture in the daylight. Ahh well, you can easily use your imagination because the beds pretty much look like…absolutely nothing. But just wait! In a few months it’ll be a jungle!
Did you have a mega garden weekend? What are you planting?
Just in time for St. Paddy’s Day…I’m green with envy! Aside from the fact that I haven’t gotten my
seed order back yet, there’s still about 6 to 8″ of snow covering my northern Michigan garden.
Temps are in the lower 50’s this week with rain on the way tomorrow. Have a sweet bunch of
snow drops about to open at the edge of the walk and a beautiful bouquet of pussywillows on
the table.
Love the word – heckuvalotta! It made me smile. I need a garden day soon. Great to see all your progress. 🙂
Jane – I hope you get to plant soon! When’s your typical planting date for cold weather crops? I’m envious of your pussywillows! They’re a favorite of mine 🙂
Taryn – Yes, garden days make everything better, don’t they!