We had a snowstorm last night, but my countdown has begun! I have decided I am not going to be affected by the weather because I know that four weeks from now I will be planting my seeds in the raised bed vegetable garden, onion sets, radishes, lettuce, spinach and parsley. There have been years when I planted these seeds with snow flurries in the air, and there have been years when the weather was quite mild. But, spring break heralds the beginning of the spring planting season.
It is a very small raised bed and I do not have the ability to rotate crops. So, as Martha Stewart said today on her radio broadcast, if you cannot rotate improve the soil. I do this every year like clockwork, manure, compost, some additional soil, shredded peat and some slow release fertilizer. My husband came in with the dog and said it was like "flakey rain" coming down. I do not want to hear this!
