the growing grid

Just what I wanted but absolutely don't need - another bed! Jim just
built it from some scrap wood which dictated its 1' x 8' size. I think
it looks awesome. I planted a dozen gladiolus bulbs and will probably
continue with flowers this year. Maybe next year it will be little
Bev's garden.

I spent a good hour pruning our beastly wineberry bushes as well as
sticking a few experimental shallots in the ground.

Our most exciting project this weekend is that Jim has starting
building me a little veggie cart for the end of the driveway!

80 degrees!

It's a hot one today and the plants are as anxious as I am. It seems
like everything is blooming overnight. With all of our flooding last
week and then the Easter weekend, I'm a little behind on my indoor
planting. I had hoped to start my zucchini and yellow squash by now.
But I think I will have to buy a set of grow lights for my lower shelf
first because the tomatoes are getting so big so fast! The butternut
squash seedlings are going strong and the pumpkins are just poking
their heads up. Here are a couple of shots of the happy seedlings
sunbathing on the porch today.

As for outdoors, I've finished planting the potatoes and onions in the
raised beds - that makes a total of 75 onions and about 54 potatoes! I
also have a ton of daffodils to plant. On Easter my uncle went to our
old farm and dug up a few clumps for me. I separated the bulbs
yesterday. There are about 115!! I've already given away about 35. I
suppose I should be a good New Englander and plant them along our
stonewall.

potatoes & onions

I just planted 23 seed potatoes and 24 onion sets. They're all in the
bed in the foreground. I dug three trenches for the potatoes, set them
in and covered them lightly. I'll continue to fill in the trench as
they grow. This is my first time trying the trench method. It's more
labor than the "square-foot" method in my raised beds but I'm hoping
it will be easier to fill them in, rather than carting wheelbarrows
over to mound up around the plant.

I planted 11 Yukon golds and 12 red Pontiac. I'm new to Pontiacs but
they should be a good keeper. This is also my first time planting
onions. Hope I did it right. They are Stuttgarter variety. I set them
about 4 inches apart and left the little point exposed. It seemed kind
of shallow but I think it's supposed to peak out. I planted 12 on
each end, capping the potato trenches.