April Garden Updates

April has been way warmer than normal with lots of rain. I’ve got a lot of bed preparation to do, but the warmer weather is giving me a chance to work outside.

My big project is rebuilding a couple of overgrown beds. These two beds have been fallow for several years and are overgrown with weeds. Fortunately, the primary weed is quack grass, and I don’t have to deal with a lot of tap roots. I can loosen the grass with my broadfork.

Then it’s on my hands and knees with my CobraHead to pull up the grass clumps and beat the soil off against the upturned CobraHead blade.

I got quite a bit cleaned out yesterday, but it will take several days to get the beds totally cleaned up and reshaped. I plan to plant corn in the two new beds I’ll have.

I was able to get peas planted quite early. They have already sprouted nicely. I grew five varieties of snap peas, snow peas, and soup peas this year.

Here’s oregano, which overwinters remarkably well here in Wisconsin.

Our perennial onions include onion, chives, and garlic.

In the hoop tunnel are all my starts, which are hardened off and ready to transplant to their permanent home once I get the leaves cleaned off the beds.