April 9, 2008
I prepared the carrot and pea bed today. I'll plant snap and shelling peas tomorrow. Also sweet peas along our compost corner fence, trying to provide a screen for our neighbors to hide the sometimes unsightly compost pile.
I feel a little like I'm scrambling to catch up. I've devoted a fair amount of my free time this past month to updating my blog and gardening plans have laid as dormant as the snow covered beds. But with these warming days of spring my attentions are turned to planning the larger vegetable garden I'm growing this year.
One piece of garden planning puzzle is the raised cedar bed we ordered from Natural Yards. I've been planning my other vegetable garden spaces around that, trying to position everything to get the most sun as needed for each crop. I've been scratching diagrams, measuring square feet in my backyard, and poring over seed catalogs every spare minute. These are all things I probably should of done a couple months ago. But the realities are:
So, what does this all mean? Although it's a late start the only thing I've really missed out on is early bird discounts on seed orders. This week's plan is to plant peas, determine more of the garden's what and where, place the orders for mailorder seeds and by next week, at the latest, make a trip to Pinetree Garden Seeds in nearby New Gloucester. Then a little rest for early May and then the steam train of spring gardening will begin in earnest.
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Spring Gouette on April 9, 2008, 3:57 p.m.
I am INSANELY jealous... most of my garden is still under several inches of snow! And Half of my perennial bed is starting to peek out of the snow.