Garden Boxes

So, after about six hours, I finally got the garden boxes cleared. Mostly, I was dealing with a violet infestation which is most assuredly still lurking beneath the surface. I also pulled crab grass, random seed sprouts, and even a sprig of privet. I then waited two days and pulled whatever popped up daring my wrath. Quite a lot dared my wrath, incidentally.

I topped off each box with a 20 pound bag of compost and mixed in chicken poop fertilizer (which stinks way more than just keeping chickens in a coup btw.) So, now they are ready to go but our night time temps are still getting down to high 30's. I still probably have a month before I can plant out the summer crops.

I've had some sort of weird block about ordering seeds this year. I'm really not sure why. So since the boxes are ready, and I'm impatient, I picked up a packet of spinach seeds at the hardware store. I planted out one box with spinach entirely. If it all comes up I'll have 128 spinach plants. Which is a silly amount of spinach but I don't think they will all come up and even if they do, I have plenty of people to share with.

The other box, I planted out with last year's lettuce and radish seeds. Lettuce seeds are notorious for not keeping well. I'm not necessarily expecting more than one or two plants. That being the case I experimenting with surface sowing half of them. The radish seeds will probably do better, maybe. However, I hate throwing away seeds and if nothing comes up I won't have to pull up anything to put in the summer veggies.

Now it's time to prepare a couple more beds, not raised this time.