It's "Garden" Time!!

At long last we are ready to plant the raised beds. We let the beds settle for a couple weeks after tilling and also had them covered with landscape fabric to help them warm up. Seeds do so love warm soil! I spent a few hours moving all the little flower seedlings out of the two main beds and into the narrow, back bed that runs along the fence. The neighbor came out to let me know she had dug the grass from her side of the chain link fence so she could enjoy the flowers I had planted. How sweet of her! Her efforts are so appreciated! We started several herbs and vegies from seed this year as well as some flowers. There will be lots of transplanting to do this weekend! As we are still getting freezing temps. at night we will only put in the more hardy plants and seeds in one of the beds. Once the apricot tree has had a bit of trimming we can move the portable greenhouse over the other raised bed and get a few, less hardy, plants and seeds put in. In the mean time we can enjoy more spring flowers while we wait for the tasty bits from the garden.