Today marks the beginning of the second full week of Spring in the northern hemisphere, even if some of us are stuck in second winter. Share your garden goals, projects, challenges, and successes for this growing season; share your tips, tricks, and garden hacks, or anything else you’d like. Let’s all help each other grow something beautiful together!
If folks are into it, I’d like to make this a weekly thread for everyone to share updates and assistance as the year progresses. Please let me know if that’s something you’d all like.
I’m building a new garden for the house I moved into last fall!
Hoping to get some raised beds built later this week using some wood from a deck that I’m tearing down (tested the wood, it’s free of arsenic!). Onion seedlings seem to be doing well, they’ll go in as soon as the bed is ready and I’ll be starting a bunch of other seeds indoors this weekend. Next step is to find a local source of bulk compost and topsoil to fill the beds.
I ordered a couple of apple trees, Honey Crisp and Baldwin varieties, which will arrive in late April or May - later than I’d like but better late this year than waiting for next year!
New gardens, upcycling, local sourcing… I love everything about this! We’re in an area where we don’t get things we’ve ordered until around then too, and it’s always frustrating because I dislike waiting to plant things