More digging and planting

All eight bags of stuff are mixed in the ground! I'm proud of myself for not letting it sit around forever.

On the south side of the house, the two bins of compost from the compost site were dumped. One by the water faucet and the other by the rain barrel near the screened in porch.
I used the pitchfork and turned the soil over in those areas. By the rain barrel there were lilies coming up!

By the faucet, I planted yellow onion sets. I can't remember if I planted them deep or not. The packaging said to plant three inches deep for green onions and not very deep for bigger onions.

In the fenced in box garden, I added the bin full of leaves and other stuff that I had taken from the compost pile.

I planted four rows of beets. The two rows closest to the house were the early variety. The other two rows were the other variety.

I planted some onions in there too.

The back box garden got two bags of stuff - compost and peat hummus in half of it. I planted two rows of onions - one deep and close together. The other more shallow and farther apart.
(The other half has radish and spinach growing.)

I planted sugar snap peas to the west of the compost bin. These seeds were in the garage all winter. I soaked them since Friday in water. The seeds had plumped up but they were not sprouting quite yet. I don't know if they will come up or not.

I watered with a hose from the rain barrel the peas on the garden. I didn't completely soak them because it will freeze tonight and I didn't know if that would hurt them. I carried buckets of water to other places that I have planted because it's not rained for a week.

Not sure what other spring garden I will do. I have some onion sets left. Have lots of beet seeds.

more planting

Last night I bought four bags of composted cow manure and four bags of peat hummus and one big bag of peat moss.

I added one bag of each and some peat moss to the box garden closest to the driveway and mixed it all in.

The peas that didn't get planted on Saturday were mostly sprouted in the container in the garage so I planted four rows of seeds that had little roots coming out of them. Most were less than 1cm.

I dumped the 20 or so that weren't sprouted in one of the rows. Don't know if they will do anything.

Put one bag of each where the pine tree died and tried chickpeas last year. Did a lot of digging and pull out a gallon of rocks!

Planted some carrots and spinach there.

Where I threw some radish seeds down on the frozen ground on 15th of Feb, there are sprouts.

Tried to get to the bottom of the compost pile today. Not much composted. Still a big layer of grass that didn't do anything. Rebuilt it and tried to break up the layer. Added a few gallons of water and used the pitch fork to drill in lots of holes.

Need to put some dirt on the top I think to get something going from the top. More water tomorrow too.

Radishes

Radishes are coming up from the planting the week of Valentine's Day. It was getting dark, but I knew that there were radishes, I'm not sure about anything else.

I hope to get some beets out this week. According to the plant with the moon it's time to plant things that grow under the ground now. I got m peas out on the last day it was good to plan them!

Saturday March 15

My family cleaned the leaves off the fenced in garden during the week.
One rosemary plant did not survive.
I had forgotten to tell them about the thyme and then I smelled it. It looks great!
In the original garden I used the pitch fork and turned up about 6 inches of dirt and broke up the clots.
Lots of great earth worms.
I planted four rows of Alaskan peas. I started soaking them on Friday morning. The seeds have been in my frig since last year. I hope that they come up.

On the south side of the house a few daffodils were starting to have blossoms. Sunday morning in the sleet I picked 5 of them and brought them into the house. One was starting open and another one was beyond a simple bud.

Today (Monday) three of them are open and the other two are opening. I hope the other daffodils around the house decide to hurry up or slow down so I get to see their blooms.

peek of a daffodil

I'm worn out, but as it was 13 this morning, I did motivate myself for a walk.

At the end of the walk I thought that the ground may actually be thawed to plant some seeds.

I was able to hoe the ground well and sprinkled some seeds next to the rosemary plant in the back plant box - black seeded simpson lettuce, radish and spinach. I even put a few spinach leaves at the very front of the new garden closest to the mailbox.

Then walking back, I saw the very top of a daffodil! I did look for crocus and didn't see any growing. The grape Hyacinth are starting to green up!

Maybe tomorrow I'll see if I can put my shower door on one of my box gardens.

To do:
Amend soil behind the house where the pine tree was.
Amend the soil at the north of the new bed (where I planted the spinach)
What to do with all of the leaves in the garden?

15 Feb Scattered some seeds

I didn't make it on Valentine's Day to plant some seeds.

Saturday evening I remembered that I hadn't planted anything yet. So about 5pm I ran outside. I had intended to plant seeds in the back raised garden. I couldn't even get the hoe to scrape anything in that bed.

I ended up scattering some radish, black Simpson lettuce and spinach seeds next to the compost bin and putting some leaves over them.

Today (the 19th), I should try again since we had a very nice thaw yesterday.

Galdiolas - finally dug on January 4th

Finally dug up the Gladiola bulbs on the 4th in the almost dark before the artic temps arrived. I actually haven't felt the bulbs yet because I was wearing gloves.

I know that we didn't get them all, but my husband was trying to help and it was getting chilly!

We did find some daffodil bulbs that had already started to sprout a couple of inches. I don't know if they will have gotten buried deep enough or not. They have 10 inches of snow on them now!