Well so far this year, I built some garden boxes to go on the inside of the garden along the chain link fence. I'm hoping this will help with the grass from growing into the garden from the yard, and it will allow me to put in more permanent things.
The winter garden is doing ok still. The broccoli is flowering before I can get any heads though. Got some decent carrots, some Chinese cabbage, kale, radishes, lettuce, spinach, Kohlrabi and bunching onions so far. The regular cabbage is still rather small. I may try and plant some more carrots soon, but the heat is coming rather quick.
I started some seeds for the spring. So far I have started:
Foodhook Zucchini
Cucumbers
Space master cucumbers
pickle bush cucumbers
cantaloupe
eggplant
watermelon
crimson sweet watermelon
okra
pea super snappy
seminole pumpkin
sweet corn
tomato black krim
tomato big boy
tomato beef master
tomato better boy
tomato rio grande
sweet pepper
jalapeno
caribbean red peppers
despagne peppers
chili peppers
sunflowers
asparagus
Some should be ready to transplant soon, but my tiller is leaking oil, so it may not be until next week I will get to plant. I have two of my compost bins ready to be tossed into the garden and tilled in.
I may start some seeds this weekend. I'm hoping to get three different start dates this year so not everything comes in at once.
Since my writing on the stakes gets washed way and unable to be read, I borrowed a wood burner and marked numbers in the stakes. I plan to keep a list inside in what is in each numbered row.
I also plan on starting herbs this week in the pots.
I also took about an hour of my day saturday and went to a Florida Master Gardener program on spring gardening. I haven't read over the packets yet. But the one guy said he starts corn in January inside, and prefers to have his corn about a foot tall by now. He said now is the time to be planting cool and warm weather crops. But I do worry with how warm it has been if the cool weather crop will come up.
Oh, my blueberries are flowering already. They are still small, but I may be able to get some berries this year.
I also need to figure out my strawberry situation. The squirrels have been eating them. They do not bother my garden inside the chain link fence, but they will go after my strawberries, or my daughters strawberries. I'm thinking of moving them from the fence around the yard to five gallon buckets placed in the flower bed. The other option I have heard of is a eight inch or greater pvc pipe. I've been told they cannot climb the slick walls if it is eight inches, and to make them three to four feet tall. But right now buckets are on sale, or they were last week at home depot for just over two dollars.