Luna Moon

It is still a bit cool where I am to put in the garden, but some of my plants from last year seem to be coming back. This is an upcycled 16 gallon storage tote that I used last year to grow an eggplant. I also kept in the container a separate pot that had mammoth dill growing in it. It looks like some seeds got spread and now I have a bunch of dill growing in already. This is mammoth dill, which was the featured seed last year in Michigan's One seed, One state program. This year's seed was little finger carrots. I am sad I didn't get to my library in time to get some, but I did get some scarlet nantes carrot seeds from the seed library. I haven't grown carrots before, but I might try growing them in buckets (I can easily get some free from work). I didn't do my best collecting seeds last year, but I am hoping to let the dill here spread throughout the whole container and just grow a bunch of dill to collect and give away. My wife has been including dried dill in my scrambled eggs lately, and I really like it. Today I grabbed some of the fresh dill and I am excited to see if I notice the difference. update: yeah 11/10 they slapped <3

My wife and I are going to be working on cleaning up the yard and getting the garden in this week now that we are on vacation. It is still a bit cool out, but it seems like we are out of danger of any more frosts at least. My garden this year will be focused mostly on things I can dry and preserve to use over the fall and winter as well. Herbs, peppers, potatoes, a modest amount of tomatoes, and beans are all my list. I have a bit of compost I need to move around. This year I am going to try going out with a notebook and making myself a drawn out of map of the garden and then sit down with that to plan what I want to grow in each space. I often run into the problem where I either buy too much for my space, which I especially don't want to spend any more money than I need to right now. Or I underbuy and by sometime in mid July I am disappointed and wishing I had more plants to attend to and harvests to collect. Thankfully I have a rough idea of it in my mind already. I don't have the space to start seeds indoors, so I usually buy started peppers and tomatoes from greenhouses. I guess prices for flats this year really will determine how much I grow there. I have enough compost and dirt from last year that I should be able to mix it with some bagged stuff from the store.