Spring Transplants Have Been Seated into the Soil

The first phase of transplanting spring crops into the garden started earlier in the week with spinach, some lettuce, and a few Brassica plants. I still have a whole tray full of various plants (mostly lettuce) that I plan to get into the soil before the week is over. Radish and pea seeds have sprouted and I will start thinning them out very soon and possibly weeding them.

This post is just a small update on the garden at the moment. I have many more plants that are growing indoors and I have been placing them outside to get them acclimated to the weather. I have many squash plants and to save room inside for more planting I have been placing these plants outdoors every day. Very soon I will leave them outside for the entire night.

Strawberries are definitely benefiting from the rain last week and the sunny days this week. They have shot up and are already producing flowers that are opening. Each flower is potentially a strawberry in the making. Hopefully I can get a good harvest this season.

Many other things are flowering including my perennial alyssum that I placed in the middle of the garden a few years ago. It has been quite successful growing each and every single year. I had to do a little bit of trimming this season before it took over more of the garden. Right now is what I like to see from this plant every season.

I will soon start planting corn and beans and many other seeds into the garden. I could also plant carrots since they are very easy to grow in this cool spring weather. I planted some sunflower seeds early and they are starting to sprout very slowly.

I will have to plant some more in order to get the bees and other good insects into the garden. All I have to do is just till a section of the garden to get my corn and beans in before the weekend.