May is the month of plants and my busiest month in the garden. I have beds to prepare for seeding and planting, and I’m trying to get as many live plants and seeds into the ground as I can. Like every year, I’m way behind where I would like to be at this time, but I always end up with a decent garden so I just keep plugging along and hoping for the best.  Here are a few things I’ve been working on.

The peas are looking very good.  The green patches between the rows here are lettuces, planted from seed of plants I let bolt last year.  Since the seeds are free, I just scatter them thickly.  We’ll start thinning them soon.

We’ve done the same thing with the garlic, heavily seed lettuce in the valleys between the tall garlic.  I’ve done this numerous times and it works well.

I got the sweet potatoes in a little earlier than usual.  The starts were very vigorous and took well to the transplant

I’ve planted two beds with potatoes, which are now surfacing.

This is my new asparagus bed.  I just bought 40 plants so I have quite a bit of work ahead getting the bed ready.

I plan to fence this year.  The deer have been unchecked and too brave the last several years.  I think a metal barrier will keep more of my food for me. I’ve got a nice couple beds of strawberries that I’ve been covering with fabric to keep the deer away, but I want to get a fence up to protect them and the sweet potatoes, which deer also love.