Two Feet in the Dirt

Well, I proclaimed March 15 the start of planting season, but March 15 has come and gone and there is nothing new in the garden. Instead, we’re still melting out from an unusually heavy late winter dumping of snow. With most of the garden beds still under several inches of icy snow, putting in spring seeds and seedlings just isn’t an option. Even after everything melts, it will still take a while for the ground to dry up enough to prepare it for planting without causing clumping and other damage to soil structure. It seems like this is always the way with mild winters- I watch the moderate temperatures all winter with thoughts of early spring planting in my head, but every time, mid-March comes, the temperatures plummet, and the winter we never had finally arrives just when I least want it to!

So now it’s back to waiting. The last of the seeds arrived this weekend, so we’re ready to go whenever the weather is. At this point, it’s just fingers crossed that that’s soon!