visions of salads dance through our heads

Mr. Tart and I have diligently prepared our vegetable garden and raised beds this spring, adding topsoil, soil amendment, mushroom compost, and our wedding manure (thanks Katie and Aaron!). We yanked out all of the winter's weeds and harvested the leftover spinach and green onions. He even built a gorgeous new raised bed with retaining wall stones--a home for raspberries. We noticed today that last year's strawberries even have little white flowers already! And this weekend I planted seeds that can handle cold weather (because we're certain to have more freezing temperatures before June here in Colorado): spinach, mache (lamb's lettuce), mesclun greens, arugula, sugar snap peas, green onions, and leeks. Yay!