Here's the plan:
- Finish buidling a 2'x4' bed.
- Fill the 2'x4' bed with the remaining soil from the previous layout.
- Finish any remaining grading in the garden and complete the new vegetable garden layout.
- Plant spinach, chard, radishes, and lettuce. These are cold tolerant veggies that should be able to withstand a little frost with very little protection. The lettuce isn't as hardy but I'll use milk jug cloches to help protect them.
- Finish the fencing around the garden. It's not the nice picket fence I would eventually like to put up but a quick rabbit fence that is necessary to keep those furry, long-eared, plant munching varmints from eating my crops. It should also keep Murray, our groundhog, from getting too close. He keeps a cozy little hole on the hill.
- Make some last minute preparations on the self seeding garden. I'll be adding a little soil to the area to improve what is there and allow the seedlings to have something soft and easy to grow through.
- Plant my larkspur seedlings in the self sowing garden and add a few more seeds for good measure.
- Prune anything that needs pruning. On most of my perennials I have left dead branches over the winter to help protect the plants from damage. I also need to trim back the butterfly bushes. I don't need 15 foot tall butterfly bushes, nope sure don't.
- Anything else I can think of and of course...Enjoy the warm weather!