In addition to more ground-breaking in the garden and cleaning up some of the brush, we started planting in the greenhouse this past weekend. Melissa planted flowers, spices, lettuces and mint. The mint is a lot like horseradish in that it will spread like a bad weed so you have to be careful where you plant it.
The garlic is doing well and has come up through the 2 inches of compost we covered them with last fall by another 4 inches or so. The crocuses I planted last fall are blooming. So far there's yellow and white and none of the blues that I like. Daffodil's and Tulips all seem to be coming up and the Pansies are starting to bloom.
Our ground-breaking continues in the garden with about another 500 square feet added on. I believe we're harvesting about 2 lbs/rock and 1 lb of roots per square foot, but my estimate may be LOW. I don't know how our fore-fathers managed to clear as much land as they did for cultivating crops without the modern tools we have available to us today. It must have taken a long time to carve out an opening large enough to grow gardens and crops among the eastern forests. I've used chainsaws, bulldozers, backhoes, and a tiller to help clear our small garden.
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