The Winter Chill

So, it's February and this afternoon Ohio expects to be dumped on for Round 2 of "Winter". I've done a great job of ignoring the garden since last fall. I was even able to ignore the lettuce heads that were struggling to live in my half-assed cold frame made of 2 x 4s and a piece of glass from a picture frame.

Anyway, I finally broke open our seed catalog and did a little bit of internet shopping. No buying. "Just looking" as you would say to that stalker of a store clerk haunting you around the shop. I've got a few plans brewing and figured I might as well dust off this virtual journal to share with nobody.

First, I plan on building a few raised beds. They're gonna look great too. I hope. Not sure what's going in them...

Also, zucchini is going in the front yard this year. I had enough problems with vine borers last year. Eff that. And I'm using whatever kind of organic pesticide I can find too. I was pissed about not having any homegrown zucch' last summer.

Pea trellises are going to be 5, maybe 6 feet tall. And that ish isn't going to fall over. And we're going to plant a ton, and freeze most of it.

As for the sunken patio, I need to put some sort of retaining apparatus around the surrounding garden beds. This is a crazy challenge. My first thought is to get some sort of metal or plastic edging. My second thought, pour and shape my own concrete wall... Not sure which is the better choice. Currently we have tiny bricks out there, but they can't hold back anything, especially dirt being washed away by rain.

Our indoor mint plant has been surviving, albeit stressed by cool nighttime temps and lack of direct sunlight. It has been getting super lanky just trying to find a good beam of photons.