Preparing For This Year’s Planting

Just thought we’d share an update on our homesteading journey. So last year was our first year out on Canada’s east coast. Enjoyed a pretty good harvest out of our postage-stamp sized garden but dug out the shovel and doubled it’s size for this season’s planting. That’s a little garlic patch on the right side. Put in the seeds last fall and they’re coming up nicely. There’s a better pic of the garlic patch below.

Putting in some asparagus this year and probably green & yellow beans, peppers, tomatoes and squash. So we have the compost and sheep manure spread throughout and we’re probably going to put a little more topsoil to cover it all and mix it all up. The birch logs are on top of a layer of cardboard to keep the weeds from encroaching on the garden. Sure hope that works!

Here’s a pic of the three raised gardens we started building last fall. Starting to put the walls up and the topsoil came yesterday. Each garden sits on a layer of cardboard to keep the weeds out. Then we put down a layer of logs and smaller branches on top of the logs to fill in the gaps. We were lucky enough to get our hands on a bail of hay so we have hay spread on top of the wood layer. Started laying the topsoil on top today and, once that’s in we’ll put in a little sheep manure and, finally, planting will start on June 1.

Penelope’s cucumber seedlings are coming along nicely…

Brussels sprouts, cherry tomatoes, better boys and peppers this year too…

Two pepper plants we saved from last fall. We had them in the front window all winter long and we’re putting them out on the front stoop when it’s sunny and warm. Starting to flower already! The plant on the right is an apple tree grown from seed so that will be going in the ground after June 1 too.

Another view of the main garden with our garlic patch in front. The seeds went in last fall, covered the bed with mulch and they’re starting to come up nicely!

Sure hope you enjoyed our little update! Will do another post after the plants go in June 1.