Ready for Spring?

I am. With this winter coming to an end my anxiety tends to get up. I love Spring but with so much to get done I get nervous about what gets done and when.

The garden plots have been plowed for the season when the weather was in the 60's this past week. Now the temps are back in the 40's. Our cabbage, broccolli, and brussle sprout plants are about 2 inches tall. We have vegetable plants every where in our house. Which brings me to our next step. This weekend we will go pick up our greenhouse. I have been waiting for them to go on sale before we use our 20% off coupon to save more money. They are on sale now so Im really excited to be getting it. Can't wait to get the rest of our plants growing.

Our chickens or shall I say one of our chickens seem to be laying an egg a day. They are just about 6 months old. The chicken tractor is done and they have been enjoying sunny days in the yard.

What are you doing to prepare for Spring?

How to tell that the last frost has passed?

You can almost sit down.

Okay so I have said it before, several months ago, that we will have a last frost but not when expected. We have not had a frost here for several weeks. I think all the rain has made the frost not happen. I am happy , that just means more work for me a little sooner then expected but I am pleased. Pleased to have almost everything in the ground. If the rain would just stop for a few days I could get everything planted and let the rain do the rest. But no such luck. I have been going out every morning and planting as much as I could until the rain starts later on in the day. We have about 33 tomato plants in the ground as well as 25 pepper plants. There is still plenty more that needs to be planted. But it too must be done according to the weather.

Weekend Things to do

This is the first weekend of Spring!!!! With that said theres lots to be done. ( check out list below) The weather is actually nice but not hot to ease us into the spring of things ( pun intended). We are eager about getting lots of things started in the raised beds as well as starting new tomato plants in the seed trays.
New tomatoes- As if 6 varieties were just not enough my mom and I attended a heirloom seed workshop last night and received 7 seed packets each which in turn made the grand total of 14 new varieties. hmmmmmm Now where are they going to go? Not sure but plan to grow at least 2 of each just to see how we like them. So now this weekend I plan to seed the following tomato seeds:
Old Virgina
Pineapple
Yellow pear
Great white
Golden Cal Wonder
Verna Orange
Uncle Mark Bagby
Black Krim
Black plum ( I have 2 packs of these)
Grace Lahman

Also have the following new pepper seeds:
Red cheese pepper
Emerald Giant
Hungarian Wax

I am still needing to research a few of these. The workshop was very nice to partake in although I did not learn much more then I already know. Built was really nice to know that others seed start, plant, transplant, make newspaper pots the same as I do.
With all that said below is the list of things that I need to do this weekend:
Prep herb garden area
Peg down strawberry bed frames
Clean around birdbath garden
Plant more peas
Clean out pond
Clean up mint around pond
Clean out shed

With all that said ( sigh) Have a great productive first weekend of Spring!!!!

Spring?

Could it be? Spring? Well the daffodils are up and flowering and I just couldn't resist picking these and bringing them into the house. The robins are finding the best tree for there nests. The lilac bushes are budding and waiting for a bit of warmer weather before flowering. The peas have been planted. The weather is getting warmer every day.

The tomatoes are coming up and look very happy to be alive again this year. We have planted several varieties this year including German green, Rutgers, Break Odays, Dads sunset, Mama Leone. The cabbage is looking very well even though they are late due to the new "lesson learned" episode earlier last month. ( Lesson learned - onions and cabbage were killed by extremely cold unexpected weather in the shed)

Tomorrow I will be going to my moms to get some cardboard - some for things - some for use in the raised bed.

All in all I am excited about the weather being warm enough to get out of the house and get my hands dirty in the rick soil that longs for plants to grow and nourish my family.