Flowers, Food + Forage

Some of the work I did in the garden at home over the weekend.

I poured 3 cubic feet of soil onto the raised bed right outside, then repaired the southern edge of the bed. I had several plants in containers on the flat area in front of the bed, but so many didn’t survive that I dumped the containers’ contents onto that raised bed, also. I mixed it all up as best as I could with a pitchfork (soil’s still frosted below 2 or 3 inches).

I started seeds in trays between March 18th and 20th. I also had several plants in the basement during the winter. With 50-degree temperatures on Saturday and Sunday, I took the plants with adequate cool-hardiness outdoors for air and more light.

I also sprinkled wildflowers seeds along a side of the thouse that doesn’t appear in the photos, as well as on the western and eastern edges of the raised bed, and in this odd little corner on the southeastern edge of the house. I emptied last season’s windowbox soil into the odd corner, creating a mounded raised bed that I hope will contain a lot of poppies, zinnia and Dianthus, at the least.

It didn’t seem that so much was emerging from the soil in the beds, but a closer inspection proved me wrong. I’ll post those pics soon.