I had to wait a few weeks longer than usual to start my garden. The ground was still frozen in March, followed by rain that flooded our yard. But I’ve finally planted my cool weather crops – cleaning the weeds and remains of last year’s beans from the bed, breaking up the soil, troweling out little furrows, and sprinkling in the lettuce, spinach, chard, and snap pea seeds.
I am getting old and creaky, but gardening is still gratifying and seeing the tiny plants emerge from the ground in a week or so will be my reward.