My garden has expanded significantly. This is how it began 3 weeks ago:

Two muffin boxes, in the snow, defiantly planted as a way to make a rude gesture to winter. But then, once I start playing with dirt, it generally snowballs pretty quickly. Within a couple days, it was this:

2 days later:

4 days after that:

Then I ran out of soil, and had a few largeish expenses and couldnt buy more right away. So nothing changed for 10 whole days. But I got some soil on sale yesterday. So today, there was planting of things.

This is where I’m at now:

I have tiny sproutlings in the lettuce, arugula, milkweed, and Nigella. My horseradish (reddish pot) has survived the winter and is leafing out again. My rock soapwort (round white tray) survived the winter and is now in a larger dish.

This is what I planted today:

I am still limited to things that like cold and are meant to be planted in earliest possible spring. I have a few iffy things, but I did those either in milk jugs, closed plastic containers like muffin boxes, or covered their planter with plastic.

I also began layering my (first) raised bed today. Cardoard as a base, of course, and 3 bales of heavily rotting hay

This will also be layered with horse manure from the neighbour, and some bagged soil to top it off. I will also be building a box around it with leftover scrap steel and lumber. I have enough steel for 2 matching beds. 4’3″ × 8’6″ ( it’s longer and narrower than that right now)

I mowed for the first time this year, too. Nothing is growing enough to need it yet. This was about taking down the thatch and high weeds from last year and expanding our “yard” area.