Gardening Plans for April

Well here we are well and truly into April. I've done pretty fair keeping up with all my gardening tasks that I scribbled into my notebook back in the cold months of winter. My pages are in a three ring binder now, instead of the spiral notebook. That way I can insert and remove and rearrange to my heart's delight.

I've gotten the potatoes and peas planted. I'm not doing sweet potatoes this year; I just couldn't work in everything and they're something that got dropped. I planted my lettuce yesterday, about a week later than I'd hoped to, and I've realized I totally forgot to order spinach and cauliflower seeds!

If you look at the large image of the page, you can see that this week (8-14) I'm transplanting *and* direct sowing broccoli. The transplants will be for us to eat fresh. I'm going to be starting a few plants every 2-3 weeks during the growing season. The direct sowing is a huge planting, for freezing and/or dehydrating.

I'll be starting my winter squash (if I ordered any seeds... I can't remember) in peat cups or jiffy pellets next week. They hate being transplanted so a method that does not disturb the roots is preferred.