..and that means it's time to get the allotment planned for this season!
This is how it looked this weekend, the snow is almost gone and I walked around planning where the eight new raised beds will go.
Yes, eight!
But as I can't yet plant anything, I decided to try out making some seed tape. I figured it might make life a bit easier planting carrots and lettuce.
What you need is strips of newspaper. I read that you shouldn't have colored ink on it, and found out just how much color a newspaper has! But I managed... no color ink on the obituary pages.. my sense of humor was tickled :)
The goop, as we will here forth call this, is regular wheat flour mixed with some water.
Read from your seed package the recommended growing distance of your produce and drop small amounts of the goop at those intervals.
Drop 2-3 seeds per goop drop.
Sometimes more go on there, it's OK, just go with the flow.
I wrote the seed type on the end of the strips, just so I'd know what I will be planting.
Once completely dry, the next day, roll up and store someplace dry and sheltered from the sun.
This growing season I'll be part of a blog circle of all sorts of garden goodness.
*happy dance*
So do get yourself a nice cup of tea (or coffee.. or wine, who am I to say..), sit back and clickclick through.
You can start by heading out to Audrey's garden.