Garden: March 1
This serves as my “before” photo.
Garlic planted September 24, 2011
Bachelor Buttons planted by Larkspur last fall, they overwintered well and will be blooming early this year I think.
February 24, 2012: planted one bed of sugar snap peas-the bush variety
February 26, 2012: planted a second bed of sugar snap peas. planted sugar snaps in the stump of the cherry tree for fun. shoveled compost, began weeding garlic beds.
March 1, 2012: finished weeding one of the garlic beds, added finished compost and mulched with maple leaves (the day was beautiful, temperatures in the 60s)
**Would you like to share your garden notes? **
Ginny – what a great idea! Am looking forward to having a deliberate journal of my garden as well as seeing what others are doing.
Thank you
Karen
I’m so glad you turned comments back on — I don’t comment often but it seemed that when they were “off” I kept having things to say! In any case, it’s nice to be able to communicate again.
I haven’t taken photos or posted yet, but we have gotten our garden in shape for spring. My husband has put up a new fence to keep the deer out and we’ve amended everything well with compost, so I am eager to get the growing season started! We have planted sugarsnap peas, onions (3 colors), lettuce and other greens, cabbage, broccoli, kohlrabi, carrots, and radishes. We’ve also put some tarragon into the herb garden and weeded that well and we’ve cleared out some flower beds for spring annuals. After several years of buying summer veggie plants from the farmers market, this year I started tomato and pepper plants from seed in little seed-starting frames covered with plastic (mini-greenhouses!) and hope they’ll be coming up soon. I planted jalapeños, Thai chiles, sweet cherry peppers, Thai basil, and many tomatoes (Beefsteak, Black Krim, Cherokee Purple, and Green Zebra). I’ll try to post some photos and a blog post next Saturday and share — until then, happy gardening! And I’ll be yarning-along on Wednesday for the first time in way-too-long! 🙂
I love these views of your garden. It looks so peaceful – so much room for good growing this spring!
My garden is buried under two feet of snow, but I can’t wait to join in once the sun warms our northern place on earth!
Such hope and excitement of what is to come wrapped up those beds. We’ve had problems with little creatures digging in the beds – they make circular 2″ holes – perfect little circles. Have you lined the bottom of the beds with something to keep out the creatures from digging up. (or perhaps they’re coming in from on top and digging down – not sure) Maybe your dog and cat are the answer to your pest problems? Hmmm…
I don’t think we’ll be having a garden yet this year but I LOVE this idea for blog posts! Hopefully I don’t become too green with envy over everyone gardens!
I’m designing my garden-to-be based on yours, although we will likely only be able to afford to put in a few beds every year. I am a person who needs things compartmentalized and lined up in rows (you wouldn’t knot that from my blog, would you?), and your garden is a real source of inspiration to me.
At our current patch o’ dirt, I’m not doing more than my usual tomatoes and herbs–soil is rocks and clay here!
Ok, I’m inspired! My daughter has been wanting to do a gardening project for her school work so we’re going to journal right along with you! We don’t have winter weather to deal with but soon enough the scorching heat and bugs will be here. I’m going to enjoy the spring hopefulness while it lasts!
Your beds look so inviting, and you’ve inspired me to plant garlic. Still too cold here for peas, but soon, very soon. Thanks for hosting- this is a wonderful idea!
Ooohhh… I covet those neat, beautiful, and, well, snow-free raised beds. Give me another month (or two) and I’ll be ready to dig in with you.
Love the capture of the dog stretching there!
I’m amazed at the size of your garden! I had no idea from your previous photos it was so big! This is so inspiring. I’m so looking forward to your garden posts in the future.
what zone are you planting in? I am going to have to check about planting peas here in zone 6.
Love the downward dog 😉
Our garlic is growing at about the same rate, but the day we were set to plant carrots and peas the weather turned and we had 5″ of snow. We’ll plant as much as we can this week. My hubby is envious of your garden boxes.
I hope this doesn’t sound too “stalker-ish”….I wish I could just come and hang out with you for a bit 🙂 Your blog is one of about three I visit daily. I really relate to a lot of your life and appreciate how you are embracing it. Our family shares many of your same ideals, it seems. It is refreshing to find Like minded people…thanks for blogging. –
Sara in CA (tomatoes year long!)
I was wondering if it was too late to plant sugar snap peas. Thank you for reminding me to look it up. Beautiful garden.
Ginny,
Have you ever tried cocoa bean mulch? I hear it’s wonderful. I’d like to try some this year. You might enjoy putting some herbs amongst your other plants in the garden, but maybe you already do this. Have fun with your garden journal.
Ginny,
You’ve inspired me to start another garden journal blog. Happy gardening!
-Heidi
What a gloriously huge garden! And you make me feel like I should be planting peas right this minute. We would love to make our whole property a garden, but we have so many deer to contend with. A piece at a time, one section of fence at a time…
I love, love, love your garden!
your garden looks fantastic. Mine is tiny, and the kids tend to eat anything I do manage to grow while it’s in the garden, but hey I like having a go.
Such a great space! Our garlic is starting to peek out too right now.
Your garden space looks so inspiring! As we’re starting to make our yearly adjustments to our garden plan, the ground is still covered with snow this year. We normally start trying to get in the garden by the first week of May up here in Minnesota. That doesn’t mean I can’t start dreaming! I sometimes envy you all who live down south and can have such a long growing season, and sometimes 2 harvests. Other times, I’m glad for the break. 😉
What a fabulous garden! Our garlic (planted on Halloween) is still under a foot of snow up here (Ontario, Canada) so for now the closest we’re getting to gardening is looking through seed catalogues. Once we do start though I think we’ll join in on your Saturday posts!
Oh Ginny you had me at garden.
I am so excited for this.
I mean I crochet… but I pretty much stink at it,lol.
But gardening….that is how I ever found your blog to begin with.
I loved your simple gardening…and not so simple gardening ideas
big smile.
T
I love your garden space! The only thing we’ve planted so far is an heirloom lettuce mix (on Feb. 9), and we are itching to eat our first salads!
Ginny,
Thanks for inviting us into your garden. You have a wonderful space, and I am looking forward to seeing it grow with you! We live in a second floor apartment in Seattle, so I don’t have much opportunity for gardening now, but it’s fun to dream for the future, and in the meantime, to enjoy your garden from afar. Happy digging!
Megan
Looks so beautiful – I can’t believe it’s 60 there! We finally got snow here, so everything is buried, but it’s nice in the greenhouse 🙂 Thanks so much for starting the garden journal – I’m looking forward to following along.
How hopeful for me to read about your garden planting – we have about 6 more weeks up here….
It is still cool here in Colorado to plant outside but we started our garden in the greenhouse last weekend. So ready for spring!
Sugar snap peas are our favorite! We plant them every year.
Love this idea! Thank you! I love the view of your garden beds. What a wonderful large space! I will be participating but Old Man Winter finally decided Minnesota should have some winter and we awoke to another inch of snow added to the 6 inches we received earlier this week. So, where my garden stands is still sleeping but I will be getting some seeds planted inside this week for transplanting down the road.