Friday, April 29, 2011

Friday Night Photos: Time to Start Planting Herbs! (2011 Garden Update #1)

The weather in Utah is still pretty cold for veggies, but some herbs are happy!

For years I used to say that the best day of the year is the day you get your garden tilled.  Now I have a garden with raised beds that don't need tilling that often, but I still say the day you get to start planting your garden is a pretty great day.  Every year I take pictures of the garden through the season and post them as Garden Updates on the blog.  Last fall I did some pretty extensive garden improvements, building a shed, replacing an old wooden fence, adding another divided bed for herbs, converting the garden to drip irrigation, and having weed barrier cloth and pea gravel put all around my beds.  I'm thrilled with the new lower-maintenance garden, but the project involved me tearing out most of my perennial herbs, so I was anxious to start planting them again this spring.

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