READY TO PLANT

Even though we are planning on moving to Nova Scotia in July, I still wanted to plant our gardens here in Ontario.  Since we still haven't sold this house, maybe a prospective buyer will appreciate the ready planted garden.  We built these raised bed gardens last year after buying the book "Square Foot Gardening".  Last year was the first time I had real success with gardening and I highly recommend this book to anyone that is a beginner, has limited gardening space, poor quality land, or just wants less work!  For me, less work was a biggie.  I have always hated weeding and digging, and this program showed me how to avoid that.  I had the odd weed once in a while, but it was easy to just pick them out without getting down and dirty.  There was no digging involved at all, all the soil came from the garden store.  Not cheap, but it is an investment. 

Today, I got down and dirty and cleaned up the weed and grass that had taken root since we harvested last year.  I did it all by hand, no tools, just gloves.  The dirt is still so soft, it was easy to get the weeds and the roots.  I also was surprised with a few "bonus" plants, an onion, a garlic clove, a carrot and some sunflowers.  I put them back in after adding a couple bags of compost, they made it this far so they deserve a chance!

All my seedlings have been outside for about a week now, I have brought them in on the odd cold night.  I am looking forward to getting them into the ground.

I am also looking forward to planting our garden in Nova Scotia, it will be late getting in, but I don't care, we can do it!