The Pickleman Family Garden

Those of my legion of followers who have been paying attention for the last month know I have been procrastinating my yard work. Winter is long and so is the mess to clean up each year if I am to have a nice yard and veggie-producing garden.

This is what it looked like a couple long months ago.

Well, it is a long weekend up here and the temperatures are warm so that means PLANTING DAY!

I spent Mother’s Day weekend cleaning up and preparing by tilling black earth, manure and compost into the garden. This week, we discovered the local dump was giving away free composts so we mixed in a yard of that as well.

After a visit to the garden store, we came home with some tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers that needed to be planted in the ground asap.

My not-so-little-one helped me plan where everything will go this year and made this trellise for the cucumbers.

Fewer tomato plants this year so there is more air flow and it isn’t so crowded.

In the greens bed, horseradish at this end, snow peas at the other and lettuce, spinach and mescaline mix in between.

Despite my namesake, I am better known for growing peppers than pickles. They range from sweet to murderously-hot every year.

This season, the hot ones are the habaneros as usual, and Trinidad scorpion peppers for the ridiculously hot.

It wouldn’t be a garden post without including some of the early season perennial flowers that pop up each spring. Like my @lynds Lupins!

Those last two are special because my daughter picked them out and we planted them a couple years ago. Fringed or Parrot tulips are starting to appear every year with some exotic colours.

By the end of the day, I had all the plants in the ground with a little light dog-proofing and the lawn all mowed with a late night watering from the rain water we collect.

That and all the signs of spring as I step tirelessly toward the top 200 @actifit users of all time and launch the Pickleman Family Garden.

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