I know it’s still Winter for a lot of folks around the country, but here in my neck of the woods, mid-February is the time to start planting cool season veggies. YAY! 
Even though our landscape guy filled the raised bed with good topsoil, I think it’s still best to add some soil amendments in the form of organic matter – I like a combination of manure and compost.
So while I was shoveling shit in the veggie garden, Tripp spend a little time shoveling shit in the backyard. {I know – I’m so funny. Feel free to roll your eyes. hehehe} And lucky me…I got a little reprise of Tripp’s version of the Tennessee Earnie Ford classic, Sixteen Turds Tons.
Oh by the way, this is Tripp’s patented poop patrol technique.
{Actually it’s not patented, nor is it copyrighted. So feel free to copy, pin, or otherwise share this photo and ingenious technique across the web as you’d like.}
How’s that for another little turd. 
Anyway, one of the things I was delighted to find was that our garden soil was full of earthworms. Earthworms + Gardens = Good Soil For Growing Veggies!
Once I got the soil amendments worked in, I smoothed out the surface with the back side of the rake. Next came the fun part – planting seeds! My cool season planting included lettuce (Spring Mix and Buttercrunch), carrots, and beets.
Burpee recommends soaking the beet seeds for an hour or two to speed up the germination process. So I started with the lettuce.
The lettuce seeds are so tiny and are packaged in this sealed, foil packet. Burpee says to plant the seeds thickly in rows that are 1/2” deep and 12” apart. I used my handy, dandy yardstick to create the furrows.
I did the same with my other vegetables and ended up with three rows of lettuce, three of carrots, and two rows of beets. 
Are you impressed with my high-tech row markers?
My garden is pretty small – 16’ x 3’ – so right now my plan is that I’ll set seeds for my warm season veggies, like cantaloupes, in between the rows of lettuces. Then when it gets hot and the lettuces start to poop out {so much talk of poo in this blog post!} there will be room for the cantaloupes to spread out.
Anyway after I got all my seeds planted, Tripp helped me to put this little fence around the perimeter to keep the varmints out of my garden.
And by varmints I mean Daisy and Riley.
So hopefully here in a couple of weeks I’ll see some seedlings start to emerge. I can hardly wait!
Peace, Kelly
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