After weeks of snow and ice and with some snow piles still sitting around, we were able to go outside and work on the square foot bed. Just prior to the freezing cold, the square foot bed that I had planted garlic in the bottom fell out.  I was determined to try and save most of the garlic so we bundled up and head out. The good news is that it appears that all 25 of my garlic plants survived the transplant. Today we were focused on making sure that the other beds did not meet similar fate. We had to re-level several beds and add lots of bracing. I was also able to pull some weeds that had started to grow as well. It will likely take another full Saturday in order to redo the bed but it will be well worth the efforts. The SUNSHINE was amazing and even working outside was pleasant at 60 degrees!

I have had some time to look through my seeds and have decided to focus on sowing as many seeds as possible this year to try and get a better harvest. I am unsure how old some of the seeds are so I am going to just give them a try and see if anything sticks. I feel bad buying more seeds when I have so much left to use. I will have a pepper green stalk or maybe a green stalk and half of peppers this year.  I do have a pretty green stalk to use up front for flowers but we will see how that all works out.

I know that I need to purchase a significant amount of dirt, we are again redoing our watering system. But I don’t want to purchase any fruit or seeds except for flowers.  Time will tell and I am always opportunistic this time of year. I would love to get snap peas and broccoli planted next weekend and some peppers started inside as well but we shall see as we an extra body here things take a little more time and energy than they use to.