It's almost physically painful to be forced to stay out of the garden when the weather has suddenly changed over spring after weeks of anticipation. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of going in to the doctor's office for a regular checkup (which I'd been putting off for 7 years) and came home with a clean bill of health...and a virus. So Mark has ordered bed rest and I'm doing my best to comply.

My long-suffering husband did let me up long enough to get the first garden seeds in the ground at last, a quick project since Kayla and I had already prepared the beds weeks ago, hoping that the abnormally cold weather would someday break. Lettuce, arugula, and peas should enjoy this current mild, wet spell...and planting a month late probably won't make very much difference in the eventual harvest time. That's the great thing about spring --- every day gets warmer and sunnier and plants quickly make up for any lost time.

So, if you're enjoying the warm spell we are --- by all means plant! Just have some quick hoops waiting in the wings for when the lion returns for one last roar before true spring.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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