My excitement for this upcoming years garden burst into bloom with an alarming intensity when I found my first crocus open and blooming in my planter box, along with the beautiful green tips of daffodils and tulips pushing up and out. Pictured above are some of my winter ground cover: clover, fava beans, and winter wheat (just a tiny corner showing). The wheat was green all winter. Next year I'll put it in the entire back yard. Not many fava beans made it through our uncommonly cold winter.
I have ordered many of my seeds for this year and realize that I need more space in which to plant them. It looks like I'm going to get to share a garden with a family who lives in the country about 3 miles from my house. I've been drawing up plans like crazy for our meeting on Monday to decide what size the garden will be, etc. Yay!!
My other big gardening development is the Aerogarden I purchased, an AeroGarden Pro200. It comes with a seed starter kit, so you can start up to 70 seedlings at a time. I also purchased some good flourescent lights and am setting up a seed starting station in the garage. Last year, Patrick and I moved all the baby plants by hand morning and night, to the sun-filled windows, then away from the cold drafts. They were also a little spindly, although they survived and then thrived outside later. I'm going to do an experiment this year and start the same seeds in a regular starter set that I start in my AeroGarden at the same time and see how they compare.
I'm all ready to go, just waiting for the seeds to arrive. I ordered them on February 4th, so it should be any day now.....
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