Last month a number of garden catalogs showed up and it was fun to scheme, dream, and plan what vegetables to grow in our garden, or flowers and bushes to add to our yard. It’s hard to have such cold winters and not be able to do much outside. Growing up in Northern California, you could have a winter garden as long as you didn’t mind a little bit of mud. So I decided I wanted to get some seeds started, and after consulting with Julie on what we should try this time around, I started some seeds for cold weather vegetables. While those are growing this month I’m going to work on a little garden box cover to try and keep them going outside in March. After a week, we have a bunch of starts and everything should sprout by the end of the week. I’m hoping this will work out as I’m already chomping at the bit to work in the yard again.
For our “winter/early spring” garden I planted broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, lettuce, and peas. Hopefully they will all transplant well next month. The only thing that Julie wants which I don’t have seeds for yet is chard. The boys have had a blast the past few days checking out the new starts and looking to see what’s come up since the day before. Spring can’t come soon enough, especially since it’s 9° outside tonight.
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