A seedy ending

It had to happen.
The garden space is now compete.

And the way it went down was that most of the planting that took place was direct seeding.  So this should be an interesting season.

As a result of the cold frames being a bomb, with my first Wwoofers of the year, Alysia (from Belgium) and Heather (from McMinville, OR--my closest Wwoofer yet), we were able to weed, degrass (The hardest part was getting out all of those deeply-embedded, sharp-ended perennial grass roots.), and plant up this year's garden.  Outside of a few cabbage starts, nearly everything was seed.  We also planted out some potato starts and dahlia tubers which loved it and took immediately.

The May Wwoofers: Alysia & Heather

Last year, the first year back at Cloudplay, you may remember that NO SEEDS were planted out until the end of June--and that was in trays!  But again, as last year, we've had lots of moisture after the seeds were put in.  So I am hoping for the best.  There were a lot of brassicas peeking through early and some peas that were planted earlier are looking fairly vigorous.

As can be seen in the picture, we finished degrassing the side of the path on which Heather is standing, and because the grass was even more established on the side on which Alysia is standing, I decided to 'half-plant' out some pumpkin and squash seeds in mounds on the grassy side and to do the grass-extraction with my June Wwoofers (Hopefully they're not reading this ahead of time!).  As the soil is sandy loam and we have had a moderately dry winter, it's not nearly as messy a job as it sounds.