Watch our garden grow

... Or rather, watch the dimensions of our garden grow.

Worked on expanding two small plots of garden yesterday -- joining them together to create one bigger plot. Lots of hacking up the turf, knocking off dirt and earthworms, and carting away wheelbarrows of the weed-grass sod.

Evan mixed in some compost and mushroom soil and evened out the old and new garden sections. We now have two plots as pictured below; the other plot is just a big brown rectangle of dirt and stones and a couple weary thyme plants, so it doesn't make for much to look at.

But here's the newer plot, in which we have a few things growing already:

Evan got the tiller going to loosen up all of the soil on the far side of the plot, where we then planted two rows of onions.

The onion-y looking rows in the photo are actually garlic that we planted last fall. I'm hoping/ expecting it to be ready to be pulled up in June. Garlic is new territory for us, so we'll see...

The part of the garden in the front of the picture is planted with some of this garlic, plus shallots (planted last week; still not sprouted), cilantro and baby spinach. A few of the baby spinach plants surprised us and survived the winter; I planted some more seeds of the same in-between the survivors, and they are just starting to sprout above the earth.

Today we got lots of rain! I hope we'll see some growin' going on by the weekend.