Spring planting

Spring is SO much in the air - and in the light, and in the yard - that H and I have started sowing seeds outdoors, adding topsoil around plants and bushes and browsing for seeds at the local nurseries. We're also considering putting up a new raised bed for more varieties of vegetables. Last year we had astounding tomato and zucchini harvests and pretty decent quantities of onions, summer squashes (aside from the zukes), peas and beans and assorted herbs. The corn failed to thrive, though I still managed to snag a few decent-looking ears here and there. The carrots and a few parsnip seeds never came up.

This year we're expanding our veg empire and have already planted radishes, kale, spinach, Swiss chard (the multicolour variety, as opposed to the lovely all-green leaves I planted last year), fennel, onion, leeks and carrots.

Here are the pots where I sowed carrots, spinach and fennel. 

Below are the raised beds: the circular one is for radishes and fashioned out of an old willow tree. Kale, leeks and onions are planted in the rectangular bed.

We both can't wait for the first seedlings to come up! Each morning we scan the ground for shoots. Nada so far. But I'm sure it will be any day now.