During the dry spells between all this wet that we have been deluged with lately, I’ve been working on some tilling for the garden. Earlier in the year, we raised a batch of pigs on some pasture. We didn’t ring them, and we let them dig at and eat the grass down. After the pigs were butchered, we put chickens out to finish up the job. What we got in the end was a nicely fertilized patch of ground that only needed some tilling (and some holes filled in from the pigs).

I made it out to get some tilling down and managed even to get some of it done this week while the ground was dry enough (we even tilled some in the rain).

Yesterday, I managed to get the first parcel completed so that we could get some things in the ground for the garden. As soon as the tilling was done, we planted some zucchini, spaghetti squash, onions, carrots, beans, etc. I’ve got over half of the space planted out already! Looks like I’ve got the tomatoes hardened off even, so they are going into the ground in the next couple of days as well.

Of course, we are expecting MORE rain through the weekend, so my planting will be halted again, but that means that the things I got in the ground will be getting the water they need to sprout!

Additionally, I finished up some raised perennial herb garden beds. Before we moved to the farm, I had a garden for 4 years that was mainly culinary herbs and things. I pulled all the plants out of the ground at the old house and was trying to decide where to plant them. I FINALLY decided to build some raised beds similar to the ones that I had so that I could put the plants in their final places. Needless to say, they are all very happy with their new home (I filled the raised bed with the muck I took out of the cow barn during the spring cleaning).

I see lots of tasty things to eat in my future. Spring is such an exciting time, and I am so happy that I got to move my old garden into it’s new location that highlights just how much I like it.