Prepping for the season

Joey and I have been discussing and planning for the vegetable gardening season.  We are going from an 1100 sq foot garden to 1800 sq feet and so we are looking to see what we want to add and change.  We also have spent too many hours looking through seed catalogs because we have received more than ever.  It's a good thing our neighbor/friend is a flower gardener and he can find good use for a lot of them too. Seeds we have started so far are onions, leeks, leaf lettuce and spinach.  We are also going to put in a little vegetable garden at my sister's house.  Her husband and her will benefit greatly from some tomato, pepper and cucumber plants.  We may do a straw bale garden there, but that decision has not been reached yet.  One hobby we took up this past fall was canning and we have been enjoying a number of canned goods from our harvest recently.  Theres nothing like heating up some pears on a cold winter night.  Delicious!  Its kind of funny after the 5 inches of snow we got today to sit here and think about the warm days of spring and summer to come, but as a WI native we have to keep positive thoughts, and I find prepping and planning for the season helps keep the cabin fever away :)

- Holly