Spring Planting

We've started preparing and planting beds for the spring. There's still a lot more to do, but so far we've planted kale, cabbage, carrots, beets, onions, leeks, lettuce, spinach, collards, peas, potatoes, asparagus, and radishes. Plus, we've got garlic growing that was planted in the fall.

Garden overview


Potato beds


Root crop bed. We have such a hard time growing good carrots because our soil is so heavy. To fix this, I've built a extra-tall raised bed filled entirely with light soils. Its planted about 80% with carrots, 20% with beets. Hopefully this works, if not, I might give up on carrots.

Couple of rows planted, from right: leeks, brassicas, onions, brassicas, over-wintered kale.

Garlic that was planted in the fall. Plan to harvest in May or June.

Brassica bed: mostly cabbage, and some broccoli, interplanted with lettuce and spinach.


At this point, there's not a whole lot left to plant until the end of the month/early April when we start planting tomatoes, beans, peppers, etc. In the meantime, we're going to build some more raised beds.