Time for a small update.  🙂  Saturday I planted the peas.  I used innoculent, and this was my first time using it.  What the innoculent is supposed to do is help the peas and beans fixate more nitrogen to their roots.  This will result in prolific beans or peas, and also will be a nice boost to the soil.  I decided to omit the shelling peas this year.  As much as I raved about them last year, it really takes a lot to make a mouthful, and with my square foot space… well, I just decided not to allocate the space.  I did divide my space between snow peas and sugar snap peas- both the kids favorites, and I know they will be thrilled when we finally see some results there.

Currently, the peas are in the spaces where the cucumbers will be.  I planted them along the fence line and left the rest of the square foot space empty.  Te reason for this is that the peas will grow and be finished growing by the end of June, early July.  The cucumbers won’t even get planted until early June.  I will plant these as seeds in the square foot space not occupied by pea plants, and by the time the cukes are really ready to grow vigorously, the peas will have been picked and the plants removed.  If all goes according to plan, of course.

The cole crops are still looking good.  I snapped a couple of pictures today, as I went out and planted four squares of romaine.  I just can’t wait to harvest some romaine from the garden!  Here in the first photo you can see my cabbage plants doing quite well.  The row next to them are cauliflower.

Then here is a wider view of the cole patch as a whole.  Look in the far back left, you can see the scallions that wintered over.  I’ve heard it said that these really will just go to seed, but in the meantime, hello? Green onions- anything fresh from the garden is a wonderful thing! You can’t see the thyme behind the onions which is doing beautifully as well!

The sage plant in the other garden bed is finally beginning to show signs of life.  We snapped off some of the dried branches for Andy to use on the grill, but for the most part, it looks like the sage successfully made it through the winter.   The spinach and radishes I planted a few weeks ago are finally sprouting as well- that’s very exciting!   I was sorely tempted to plant more lettuces today, as well as some chard and beets, but the garden those are going in is still in need of some manure.  I’ll get that in by the end of this week, so then I can plant away.  Oddly enough, as much as I couldn’t wait for spring, now that it’s sprung, I have a rather calm patience about getting the garden planted.

The tomatoes and peppers and eggplants are still doing well inside, and many of the herbs as well.  I’m debating what to do with the herbs- I had originally planned for them to go in the gardens proper, but now I’m leaning more towards pots.  Only because then maybe I can squeeze a few extra months out of them by bringing them inside.

Overall, I’m a happy vegetable gardener.  The chard still hasn’t come back, so I’m going to write it off and just plant new- it grows so fast, it seems silly to keep waiting for what looks like is never going to happen.