In early April we began planting cool weather seeds and transplanting cool weather seedlings.  We have a 70×130 garden with 16 garden plots about 5ft. wide and 50ft. long.  Before the gardening season I fenced the garden off with light duty U-posts and 4ft. tall chicken wire to keep our free range chickens out.  Once our cool weather garden is done producing, I may set our chickens loose in there during the day to eat what remains and fertilize the soil for next year.  I am not sure if I will be planting a fall garden yet simply due to time restraints with harvesting and canning, about the time the fall garden would have to be planted.  Considering this is our first year, I am going to take a wait-and-see approach and if we don’t get a fall garden in, that can be a goal for next year.

Our transplants are doing awesome, and the seeds we planted directly are sprouting and doing great.  Here is what is growing:

• Onions
• Garlic
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Cabbage
• Wheat
• Quinoa
• Strawberries
• Raspberry bushes
• Carrots
• Beets
• Peas
• White & Red Potatoes
• Celery
• Lettuces, spinach, kale
• Turnips
• Radishes

I could be forgetting something!