I'm very sad to say that my week of vacation is now over and I am due to head back to work in 45 minutes. Sigh. I did get a lot accomplished however. The entire front yard, all three beds and the porch, have been cleaned out and re-mulched. I also started all of my seeds, and have filled the porch with spring flowers. I also started a few planters in the back yard with various types of lettuce and a planter of strawberries. Four of my five vegetable beds are ready for planting.

Hopefully the guys coming to trim the trees in the backyard will call me shortly. They could not guarantee that the workers would not step on my beds, so I'm not planting anything until they are done with the work. I'm hoping it is sometime this week. I need to plant my potatoes, snow peas, lettuce, and spinach soon.

The two most major remaining items are getting the last vegetable bed ready (I need to move the artichoke that is in the bed somewhere - it gets way too big) and to build an arch support over one of the other beds. But that's not too bad.

So I think that so far I have a pretty good start for the season. It's the last day of March and a lot of the garden is ready. And I have taken 69 photographs of the garden so far. That's a record for March. We'll see if I keep up with it (and this blog) for the rest of the season. It's easy to keep up with it when I don't have work or school, and since both are starting back up this week my life will resume its normal hectic pace.

Oh well. Back into the land of technology. At least when I get home from work/school I now have a pretty front yard to greet me and I won't feel like a slacker for not taking care of the front gardens. :)