The raised garden beds are finished  :-)  Yipee!!!  We are all jumping with joy.  Now the fun begins.  I raked in the "good" dirt we have been building up over the years and added that to the beds.  Wow, they were an inceh full.  Yikes!!!  I added a block of peat moss to each one, as well as some good compost, and turned that all in.  Looking better but still only a couple inches full.  I guess the soil will build over the years. 

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With the soil all worked up, I got my first spring plantings in Thursday  :-)  I put in 8 cabbage, 8 broccoli, one square foot romaine lettuce, one square kale and one spinach.  I will add a square foot of these last three every week for about 6 weeks.  Then, we take a break from these til spring.  I still need to get my onions and cauliflower in sometime this next week. 

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I love all seasons but there is something special about spring.  The flowers, budding trees, first warm days, planting those first plants in the newly tilled soil.......it is such a wonderful time of year.  It is the expectation and excitement of things to come.....like the season of advent.  We anxiously await the celebration of Christ's resurrection and his return.  What a glorious day that will be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!