Can You Dig It?

I can't keep myself out of the yard when Spring arrives. My garden chore to-do list is a mile long and I want it all done IMMEDIATELY. So I tend to overdo it those first few weeks of Spring. This year is no different: it's been beautiful this week-sunny and clear and slightly warmer than typical early Spring temps. I can get outside and dig, dig, DIG! (of course, the next day my back is killing me...)

I've been edging my perennial beds:

This bed has a new PEAR TREE in it! Paid $10 for it last Fall. It has a mate a few feet away & we'll be purchasing an additional variety in a few weeks. 

And starting to wake up the vegetable garden:

These are some of our pea plants! Planted these right around St. Patrick's Day, and then a second planting about a week ago. 

And I pulled a weed or 2 here and there in the garlic:

I planted 50, and have 48 come up-not bad!

I spotted  much-too-early strawberry blossoms:

Now I'm going to have to cover these darn things b/c we're nowhere NEAR out of  the hard freeze danger. Phooey. 

And my 4 year old decided to "garden" some of our scrap wood, with a tomato cage added for good measure:

This is just the tip of the iceberg; my to-do list barely has a dent in it. I still need to weed behind the pool, weed behind the shed, clean all the kids' large toys, cut back all the ornamental grasses, move Grape Hyacinths...sheesh. That to-do list is a whole other post!

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