The garden - beginning edition

Well... even though we're still a few weeks out from frost-free date in Illinois (May 10-15 is frost-free), we began out cold weather crops this weekend.

So, I guess it's time to tell you about our plan for the garden. I know you have been losing sleep. We went from two garden beds (4x5 feet each) in 2009 to 3 beds plus more space for 2010.

The strawberry plants from 2009 are already coming in gangbusters. There are already a lot of blossoms, which I hope means we'll have lots of strawberries this year.

And, here's the plan for these three beds. If you recall, I use the "Square Foot Gardening" method, so each plant will have a square foot. I'm doing one entire bed with a variety of tomatoes, because I'd like to preserve them this year.

So, that's the garden, in photos. So far, we've only planted radishes, potatoes and onions outside. We also put a variety of lettuce and mustard greens in the planters on the deck.

Here's Ryan planting all the onions. There's like a thousand (not really - but, there will be a lot). Hopefully the neighbors like onions. Ryan chose to plant them in rows instead of in square feet.

Garden-time is almost here! Hope you are feeling the joy of spring in your neck of the woods.