Garden Diary - Spring

Since we really can't plant much here in Iowa until Mother's Day, early spring is spent cleaning up after winter.  I've been wanting to replace the old landscape timbers we had fencing the vegie garden because they were starting to rot out, so last weekend we spent time replacing them with cedar fencing.

Here's our garden after tearing out the landscape timbers.

Here's the garden after fencing it in cedar.  The top left corner of the garden is where I planted the asparagus.

I also planted some early vegetable last weekend too.  I got both red onions and shallots planted and I also did 4 rows of red radishes and white icicle radishes.

This weekend, I got the rest of my vegetable planted.  I planted cucumbers, red peppers, orange peppers, yellow peppers, eggplant and zucchini and a few plants of buttercrunch lettuce.  I'm still waiting on my tomato shipment from Burpee's.  I sure hope they get here this week.  I've got Brandywine and Yellow Pear tomatoes on their way.

I'll get you updated on the garden's progress every few weeks or so.

I've got to start working on flowers next!