Looking forward to spring - garden plans

[aldersprig]

Is it spring yet?

I was wandering around this past weekend without a jacket, so it certainly seems like spring. We've started to order seeds - though I need to find a source for purple seed potatoes - so that makes it seem like spring. There's only a tiny bit of snow anywhere, so that looks springlike, right?

But it's not yet March, and I live in the northeast. It's not spring until May, most years. You don't plant without some sort of covering until Memorial Day weekend (May 30th, this year). And our last frost date is in mid-May.

Still, I can start planning. Planning is easy.

So what should I plant this year?

P.S. My kale lasted till mid-February again this year before it started to turn brown on the tops. Definitely planting kale again.

P.P.S. We still have a few apples from our biggest tree sitting on the kitchen counter.

Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

Hmm, you know what goes well with kale and apples? Butternut squash!

And you should also plant peas.

[wyste]

Going to do walking onions again? I ended up eating the ones you gave me, rather than planting them, on the theory that they scared me. o_o

I still have to dig up my last few carrots and parsnips from last year, and we're doing a huge burn this month because we've let ancient Christmas trees build up for five or six years. Fire fire fire.

[aldersprig]

Walking onions don't really need to be done again so much as contained. They just keep going.


Fire fire. I need to burn brush too.