I have the garden (gardens) planned out on paper. As disorganized as I may be I am organized about things like that. I have very little soil preparation to do as all the tilling was done last year. I will work some of the compost that has been brewing over the winter and some organic fertilizer into the soil as well. For now the peas and spinach will have to do without it as I didn't have the time and I didn't think that these crops really needed a lot of fertilizer. It's still pretty early too, peas make good green manure and I'll work the stalks into the soil when I'm done with them in late May / June.
Today's planting were the following: Oregon Giant snow peas. A whole row. Half rows of sugar snap Little Marvel, Progress #9, Wando and Agway seeds marked simply as Sugar Snap. The spinach is Olympia and Bloomsdale.
I have already started on a new plot for the squash. I'm putting it in a space removed from the main garden by 25' - 30' as squash takes up a lot of space. This spot is more or less a horseradish grove. Unfortunately it's not good horseradish. It has no kick to it. None at all. The roots are yellowish, not the snowy white of good horseradish. I'm sure it is horseradish too as aside from the yellow roots it looks and behaves exactly like every picture and description I can find and it also has the notorious characteristic of spreading all over the place. I just found one growing in the main garden. I uprooted and cleared out dozens of plants in the course of tilling the roughly 20' X 6' plot. It made a respectable pile of plants and it really is a shame that it has no kick as that amount of horseradish would last me the rest of my life were I to grate it and can it.
Soon the potatoes will go in. I have quite a bit left over from last year that should make excellent seed spuds.
The "Horseradish grove" squash bed.
The bleak looking main garden.
Peas were planted here.
