Early Spring In The Garden

Hello, steemians and garden lovers!

"We've had early spring, yes, but what about second spring?"

About 3 weeks ago, we had a week of nice, fairly warm spring weather, and then winter came back. It's still cold here. Today was the warmest day we've had in more than a week, and it was only in the low 40s F, definitely not garden weather.

I took these pictures on April 6, you can see the snow still on the ground.

Those pictures were taken on a fairly nice early spring day. A few days later, on the 9th, a lot of the snow had melted, with the temperature in the low 50s F. I decided to do a bit of clean up work in the garden. I started by cleaning up the far end of the garden. The snow on the garden had finally melted away.

First I moved some of the boards off the garden, and then I decided to take down the bean trellis from last year. In this picture, I had everything removed from the trellis posts.

The ground was soft enough that I was able to pull out the trellis posts. They're steel posts with wood attached to them, so I can move them easily every year.

I had previously decided to move the compost pile to this end of the garden when it got warm enough, so that's what I started on next. I moved the little fence around the compost pile, and then moved the compost.

The boards are on the ground to walk on so I don't get mud everywhere.

I still have a pretty big pile of shredded leaves from last fall, I want to eventually move a lot of that to the compost pile.

As soon as we start getting some warmer weather again, I'll be continuing the clean up in this garden. I can't start planting until the end of May because of possible frost, so I have several weeks to get the rest of the prep work done.

That's all I have for this post, thanks for checking it out!