Wow! What an awesome into post! And I love the budding garden footage! Okay, the dump truck cracked me up too, been there, lol!
Cold weather crops I tend to direct seed, with the exception of the occasional flat of lettuce and cabbages. One of my favorite intercropping schemes is to plant a cabbage in the middle of a square foot section and then seed quickly maturing things like radishes and spinach around it. By the time they are done and eaten the cabbage can fend for itself and take over the square and then I don't have so many dang weeds to contend with lol!
You all are going to have so much fun! And probably be annoyed. And mystified at times, growing your own food is so rewarding, and by the end of the summer you will have notes galore of what works and what doesn't. That you are out there doing the work is the absolute most awesome part of it ever!
Can't wait to see future update posts!
Thank you so much! And yea, I love having the kids helping out and playing in the garden, our new puppy, Poppy (Australian Shepherd/Blue Heeler mix 💙), loves helping by taking clumps of dirt away when we're digging around trying to weed the rest of the plot! Kind of how Cora does with you lol.
I will definitely be taking note of that intercropping method, and try it out next year! Less weeds are always a plus, and that sounds like an awesome, all-natural, method!
I can't wait to see how this year turns out, and honestly, we have been having a lot of fun already! But I'm sure I'll have more than a few annoyances, one being I may have to transplant some lettuce starts, because A LOT of those seeds germinated fairly close to each other (we've had a lot of heavy rains the past few weeks). Which isn't necessarily a problem, I just want them all to thrive as much as possible! So maybe I can put a few around the cauliflower I have planted now! :)
I can't wait to see more updates on your garden too! Our potatoes have already grown tremendously since last week, so I personally can't wait to see more on how yours are doing, and maybe I can learn a few more things along the way!!