Well, it's been a while since my last post, and needless to say our winter was uneventful. But, there has been a lot going on here since the beginning of March! You remember how our front yard looked last fall....
It is starting to resemble a garden finally!
It took most of April to get the beds double dug, composted and ready to start seeds in, but already we have a lot growing on our little plot! 
Tomato seedlings in our cold frames.
Shelling peas, leaf lettuce, mustard greens, verbena, and asters in this bed.
What we are Currently Growing:
Arugula, Beets, Carrots, Swiss Chard, Parsnips, Red, White and Sweet onions, Garlic, Shelling peas, Spinach, Butterhead Lettuce, Leaf Lettuce, Brussle Sprouts, Kale, Russet Potatoes, Radishes, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Pickling Cucumbers (under row cover), Sage, Rosemary and assorted flowers as living mulch.
In our Cold Frames: 3 Types of Tomatoes, 3 Types of Peppers including Jalapeno, and Eggplant.
Winter Improvements:
This winter we started doing serious water conservation in our house which means there are buckets of grey water everywhere. We have cut the amount of water we use in 1/2 just by saving the water from dishes and when the water is warming up in the shower and then using that to flush our toilet.
We have also joined a Co-op that sells bulk foods and local produce. And thanks to a great Christmas gift we are now making our own soymilk and tofu with our bulk organic soy beans.
And we are in the process of making some portable greenhouse structures to grow greens and other veggies over the winter. But, this is still in experimental stages!
All in all, things have been going well here, and the planting will be continuing! Now, I am going to enjoy our first salad greens of this season!!
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