The Planting Day

Today we did our first planting of the year, but before that we had to tidy up the strawberries.  We took all the straw off the bed and put it in a bag for later.  Then we cut off all the brown and old leaves so that the new ones could grow. 

These seeds are spinach seeds that we planted into the bed where the potatoes had been.  It's Giant Spinach.

Here we are planting the spinach into a row scattering very thinly and being careful to keep it in a straight line.

The we put some string over the row so that we could see where the spinach was before it grows.

After that, we filled some peat pots with compost and put some spring cabbage in them and then popped them into the greenhouse to grow.  After they have sprouted, we will move them into the bed with the spinach.

Meanwhile, my daddy was putting in the last two raised beds that we had emptied out last week.

Well done Daddy.