I WISH I had gotten snow peas this year! My kohlrabi and spinach are just little babies, now. Of course the couple of weeds in their beds are growing 10X faster, but I have to wait until they get bigger before I'll risk pulling out the weeds.
I also planted these guys earlier this week:
purple asparagus
"plum" tomatoes
Squash
Zucchini
I also planted nasturtum and marigold seeds around the veggie beds to try to deter bugs.
Next week, I'm going to plant the other items such as pole beans, cilantro, the "juicy" tomatoes, watermelon and more squash. The peppers and eggplant are still inside being "started." I'm kind of a bad food gardener, but I hope I'll improve.
Otherwise, my BIG excitement this spring has been for the non-food gardening! I am completing the flowerbeds on top of my leach field. I transplanted a bunch of non-edible perennials, and I also put out some seeds for black eyed susan, eupatorium and something else I can't remember. I'm planning to plant the butterfly bush and more echinacea over the weekend! I also transplanted some iris, lily of the valley and yucca (for structure) to the beds. The yucca roots seem pretty tame, so hopefully all will be well in the field.
The beds are circular and I made them with the leaves from last fall. I still need to dig trenches around them and put on a little more mulch, but I'll fight with that over the summer.
I also expanded my moist shade garden and am excited to plant some more ferns this year! I am also planting ferns in the woods behind the house. One of my plans is to repopulate native plants in my small woods, but that's a longer term scheme.
I've already planted a couple of natives and I sowed a bunch of seeds last fall. The garlic mustard and other invasives are really overgrown, so I'm just plucking them up a little at a time. It's a tough fight and they're EVERYWHERE.
Besides the circular beds, I've been doing some transplanting and small additions to the beds I started last year. I also have planned two new gardens:
1. Privacy planting fronting the house. The road salt abused the arborvitae, so I'm planting salt-tolerants in front of them. I've transplanted so far roses, rose of sharon and juniper, but I still have to plant more juniper, native roses etc. My mantra for that area is Salt tolerance, beauty and privacy. I'm still planning, and the goal is to finish before winter.
2. Privacy planting on the south side of the property. I love my neighbors, but I like to jog, garden and (once I can afford to put in the biopool) go swimming in private. I'm planning a multi-layered evergreen privacy planting that I should complete by May.
I have some fruit trees and forsythia already on that side, so I'm intending to layer larger juniper, arborvitae and holly bushes to screen the field. Then on my side, the current plan is to put in some serviceberry and other native edibles, as well as some hydrangea and wintergreen so it looks kind of woodland-ish, but a little formal.
I'm also considering putting some little paths in between. Since I've planted more trees than any woman should have to (I'm going to have manhands soon ewwww), I'm going to have a nursery put in the big plants.
Since I'm making it into a "garden" I will still have to outline the area by removing the sod, put down cardboard or paper liner, and a ton of mulch. The plan is to have the outline include the existing plants and look beautiful instead of the way it looks now.
The area's far from the house, so I'll have to buy some more hoses, and I'll probably be watering all summer, but I really can't wait until fall to get those guys going. So far, I've drawn a plan, but I need to get started this week with the sod removal.
Anyway, I used your post to share ALL my garden plans, but I feel no remorse.
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