My spring garden

Yesterday, after the hail, rain, and wind swept through the plains (OK, this isn't Oklahoma, but the song ran through my head, none-the-less), I felt it was now safe to transplant the herbs I bought on Herb Day into larger pots.  It also appears the cold and snow are no longer in the forecast, either.

The first thing I did was drag all my pots into my garden, since I only plan to grow herbs this year.  Unfortunately, the pots needed to be cleaned and the dead plants or weeds removed

before I could add the herbs I bought over the weekend.  Moving the pots was a major undertaking, and I was already ready for a break.  But there was far too much work to do before I could rest.

My helper was not much help.

He preferred snooping

and sniffing to planting and weeding.  If I ever get a new helper, it will need to be a big strong man!!
 

I bought one perennial I decided did not belong in a pot.  This is a blackberry bush and should produce blackberries next year, if I'm lucky.   I don't really have a good trellis system, so decided to use two tomato cages that I won't be using anytime soon.

It took forever to dig through that black weed-barrier cloth I foolishly allowed friends to talk me into using a couple of years ago.  I never should have let anyone talk me into tilling my garden, because I had the perfect system known as "lasagna gardening."  So now I have to start the garden over again, building the garden from scratch on top of that useless and unwanted weed-barrier cloth.

For those of you who have no idea what lasagna gardening is, it begins with a few layers of cardboard or newspapers, which you wet down really well.  To that, you add "brown stuff," meaning dead leaves, etc.  Then you add "green stuff," meaning grass clippings or veggie/fruit kitchen waste (no meat).  Water each layer as you add it.  Then you repeat as many times as you have brown and green "stuff."  You can see I have lots of brown stuff, but no green stuff.  That will need to come later in the summer.  But for now, I'm not going to rush the garden 

because pots are my "garden" of choice this year.

I have three pots I haven't yet used, but I have a ton of seeds I still need to plant.  That means I need to buy a few pots (and possibly a bit of soil) before I can plant the seeds.

But for now, I'm happy with the way this garden is starting to take shape.  I still need to find a pot I'll be able to carry into the house each winter, because I was told the eucalyptus won't overwinter outside.

So how does your garden grow?  Is it doing well, or have you not started it?