Spring Planting

I planted 138 onion sets along the inside of the new bed today. Then stood back and thought, "Is it enough?'' :-) Does it ever seem like enough? We'll see. We got the horseradish roots planted, also.
Took the covers off of the raised beds for this warm weather and the lettuce and spinach growing in there are so mild and tender!
It is a tremendous blessing to be back on the land and able to plant. We waited a long time.
The inside extreme "Get Organized" project is still going on but we are down to the last details. Hanging hooks and such. What a difference it has made already and should make things run much smoother. When you live in a small house it can take some doing! I'll try to post pictures soon.
Hope all of your planting is coming along well!
Nancy

Signs of Spring

Not only are the garlic and chives up but the lemon balm, Santolina, and lavender all have green leaves.
We were able to get one of the raised beds mostly done. It is 3 ft. by 30 ft. Having it only three feet wide will enable us to work in it without walking in it. We're going to mulch the top well to keep the weeds down. We hope to build two more and plant the rest of the garden in rows. We've had so much rain the last three years that we have to plant in raised beds or it's not going to work. A friend gave us boards from an old fence that was torn down in the city and they are cypress! What a blessing that was! We are using them to build the raised beds. It is so hard to find untreated wood to use so this was great! He also gave us some 2x4's taken out of an old apartment building that are really 2 in. x 4 in.! Not like the 1 1/2 in. by 3 1/2 in. boards that you get today. They are so old that they have square nails in them. That was also a huge blessing and we are putting them to good use!
Hope you're able to get in the garden! ( I have onion sets to plant as soon as it quits raining again!)
Nancy