Planning a garden plot...

Even though the snow is still knee deep, being at the garden a few days ago has me in the mood for all things gardening. So I planned out what I'm going to plant. It's a small variation on last year. More of things I loved and that grew well, but a little less variety (some things just didn't work for me). I have a 4' x 12' plot so lots of room to play. I'm going to try mixing the beans and potatoes this year as they are supposed to like each other and my beans were rather dismal last year. More carrots because it seemed like I hardly got any last year and they were one of the best tasting veggies that came out of my plot. A little more lettuce, and a little less spinach, just to change it up. And about the same amount of peas.

I don't want to jinx our chances of a nice weekend, but i have a feeling that we may be able to see grass by Easter Monday. One step closer to real spring.

Attempt #1 at 2011 Plot Plan

More than a green thumb...

Sometimes it takes more than a green thumb to be a Calgary gardener, lately it's all of the time. This past weekend it took a wild imagination. As snow continues to blanket the ground trying to plan your garden is getting to be a little ridiculous. But four gardeners/snowshoers made their way to Harvest Gardens this past weekend to try and finalize the location of a perennial bed, some raspberries and some trees. This was our best guess for a perennial bed, can you picture it? Just follow the orange line, it may get lost in the snow a bit.

Perennial Bed...Can't you see it?

Not quite the lush green bed with the infusion of colour we're hoping for, but we'll see in a few months.

Hmmm...How much compost do we need to top the beds up?

It also wasn't the easiest task to figure out how much soil we need to top our beds up for this coming year. I'm sure there must be some trusty equation for frozen-snowy-dirt compaction, but I don't know it.I think we did fairly well just find the dirt.

We also started talking about a shed, but the construction combined with the snow was bringing about flashbacks from last years construction day. So after about an hour our imaginations were worn out, or perhaps frozen, as were our toes and fingers and we decided we had finalized enough for a brisk spring day.

Time to trudge home.

Expansion plans...

There are some exciting expansion plans for Harvest Gardens, lots of fruit trees and bushes. Check them out below.

Next Stop Veggie Town...

Coventry Gardens (and whatever official name it takes in the future) has officially been approved! Great work everybody, a stellar group effort. I can already smell the flowers and taste the carrots. A little more sweat and hopefully a lot more sunshine and we'll be in full bloom.