Spring is Coming!

Today was a nice day outside. It was still a little chilly here in Fraziers Bottom, WV, but a good day to get outside after the snow just a few weeks ago. I surveyed my garden plots today and everything looks good. I spread around some alpaca poo as well to get the soil enrichment process started. My garlic is already starting to bud up from the dirt. I still have some turnips and radishes in the garden from last seasons fall garden, but they are no good to eat. I have spent the last 3 weeks collecting seeds from several stores. For my summer garden I will be planting Brandywine tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, Bell Peppers, Gypsy peppers (I had so many of them last year I had to throw away about 40 lbs of them), several types of hot peppers, Ruby Queen sweet corn, Silver Queen corn, Yellow sweet corn, red onions, white onions, yellow onions, pickling cucumbers, tobacco, Tenderloin bush beans, Blue Lake bush means, Contender bush beans and hopefully some fingerling potatoes. My fall garden will include a vast assortment of things, from lettuce and carrots, to sweet peas and beets. I now have to wait until it dries out a bit more so I can begin to work the earth and get some more organic matter added to the soil before April. That will give it time to break down before major planting near the end of May.