It is official! The Spring wreath is up on our door!

Spring is here…at least on the calendar.  We had snow on the first official day of Spring but we have been visited with several 70 degree days in March, have had our first cookout and dinner on the deck.  Spring is here.

The new vegetable garden is beginning to take shape.  Let me put this in perspective.  This is our vegetable garden at the home we lived in for 35 years, building the soil by composting all those years.

The left end of the old garden.

And the right.

The old garden was about 25’x40′.  Two of us ate well off that garden in the summers with extras dropped off at the food bank down the street or were canned and frozen for the winter months.

That was then.  This is now.

The new garden.

The site for the new garden is on the south side of the house in one of the few sunny areas of the yard (except the front yard…wonder how New Jersey would take to vegetables instead of grass in the front yard?)  The current site is about 7’x20′ with room to expand the length another 15 or 20 feet once we figure out what to do with the mountain of pavers stacked after our addition took up the space of their previously paved patio area.

So, I have done the preliminary tilling.  I have bought the composted manure and top soil to begin building up the soil.  I have even planted asparagus roots and rhubarb to get started on the long term plantings.  My daughter has planted strawberries in another area.  Spring has sprung.

And the seedlings I started in February are just waiting for the last frost date in mid April to move into their new home.  You don’t think 40 tomato plants and 40 pepper plants are too many, do you?