Dig! Dig! Dig!

I finished clearing the front bed Saturday. It is ready for fertilizer and liming ASAP. Since we are having a real winter this year (lows in the 20s forecast again next week, after a warm weekend), the baby plants will stay indoors for a bit longer. The broccoli and bok choi have moved to the porch, and the peas are going in tubes tonight on a radiator cover for faster germination, then to the windows, then the porch, then hardening, then outside. I also cleared some of the back beds of the rake-able leaves, hoping the cold night-time temps will foil my nemeses, the slugs. A broccoli plant that survived the winter is heading now. Wow! Maybe we'll get something out of those plants after all!