One week after St. Paddy's Day

I can't believe it's been a week since last post already. Spring is still in the air here it's just been cooler and the rain has finally quit after two days. But enough of this New York weather, you're probably wanting to know about the pictures.

The picture with the two plants is the salad blend mix. Can you guess which one I put in the mini green house I made last week? Yes the mini green house plants grew taller and faster than the one out of the green house. I had sprouts on the green house one a day before the other.

The other plant shown is the Cherry Tomatoes also started in the mini green house. Wifey was so impressed with the mini green house she put saran wrap on her plants. I guess she thought of a quicker and easier way to create a mini green house!

Three days ago we finally uncovered the strawberry plants. Looks like the moles got into a few of them but the rest seem good and have begun rejuvenating.

Over the weekend we started shoveling dirt. We have large piles of dirt to fill in the lower landscape where we want to put our garden. Our garden will not be the conventional kind. The garbage that was left in the regular dirt of our lawn is a good deterrent. We are still pulling up insulation and buckets and who knows what else. I've included pictures of the area we are filling in. Not sure if you can really tell how much we've done through the picture. Anyway keep posted because we've got a lot more to do over the next several months. Somehow we're going to use the stumps and pushed over tree and branches in this garden. If we can bury it with dirt that is good but some will have to be used for decoration (maybe plant in the stumps).

Our garden plans: Have you ever heard of the Square Foot Garden? We have a book out of the library right now on how to do this. We plan on using cement blocks about 8 inches tall to make a raised Square Foot Garden. We'll have pictures every step of the way and explain our process too. We're kind of excited to give this a try. But before we can do that we must keep shoveling dirt and raising the land. So I'm going to get back out doors while the sun is out and get this done. Until next time...