Sowing greens in early March! Mini greenhouse polytunnel

Finally! Today I sowed the first seeds of the year outdoors.

With the first garden bed, I used the bulb planter tool to make pockets in the mulch, and filled them with fine garden soil. I sowed different lettuces and radish.

On the following days this week, it was nice warm weather, so I continued to plant....

In the second bed, I sowed French Breakfast radish seed, Lollo Rosso lettuce, black seeded Simpson lettuce, ruby red lettuce, and Oakleaf lettuce seed amongst the radish.

In the third bed, I sowed Spinach and arugula together.

In the fourth, I sowed Swiss Chard and Dinosaur Kale amongst the already established cilantro plants.

In the fifth, I sowed Cilantro, Chives, French breakfast radish, and Peizehead lettuce seed were sown.

In the sixth bed, Iceberg lettuce and Buttercrunch lettuce seed were planted.

Now, all six garden beds are filled with seed and they're each covered with plastic or cloth. I planted raspberry plants as well amongst the blueberry bushes. I watered the garden beds and raspberry plants then covered them back over.

 Now we wait for the seedlings to sprout...

Growing microgreens indoors with plastic recyclables

I have been eating on the microgreens. And I have more to chew on growing under the indoor lights.

It's nice to have some greenery indoors when its 0 degrees outside. The pipes have froze but lets hope they don't bust.

Microgreens under grow lights & tropical plants on shelf

Microgreens to eat from indoor growing, plus produce I buy as a
supplement until I have food growing in the gardens 

Here, I have garnished the ramen with microgreens. And I have used the microgreens in other soups, salads, and sandwiches. They're quicky, easy, and nutritious, so I encourage you to grow what you can, too.

Hoemeade Vegan ramen with kimchi and microgreens.

And not surprisingly, the tulips, crocuses, irises, ferns, and daffodils are emerging up from the soil. I cleaned up around the spring flowers, grubbing the weeds out, and I spread peat moss over them. Tomorrow, I'm going to cover them with sheets of plastic and cloth until March.

I transplanted some of the crocuses to ceramic pots, because I thought that looked better than growing around my yard for two weeks. Crocuses don't bloom long, and I would rather dedicate yard space to something else that blooms longer. I have many more crocuses to transplant though.

There's so much to do, so little time. But with these warm days in the forecast, I'm taking advantage of it, and mulching/composting and cleaning up the vegetable and flower gardens and the fruit trees.

Fig Harvest from the last two days & making fig jam

yesterday's fig harvest

fig jam

today's harvesting & going to make more fig jam

I come home to find HUGE VEGETABLES in the garden

For Memorial weekend, I went to visit my grandmother for a couple of days. We decorated my grandfather's grave and his family members' graves as well.
When I came back home last night, I rushed to the garden to see the progress on the plants. And sure enough after all of this rainfall, the vegetables had doubled their size within days.

Here are some pictures I took of the vegetables plants in the garden.

crookneck squash

row of crookneck squash

row of zucchini & crookneck

squash growing in compost

rows of tomatoes

artichoke

row of pumpkins

row of cucumbers

row of cucumbers

melons & cucumbers in compost pockets with trellis

melons, acorn & butternut squash along pallets

Swiss chard

peas

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