Seeds finally hit the soil over this past weekend.  The previous rain kept me out of the garden until things dried up enough to use the tiller.  As you can see from the top picture some of the tilling is only masking the eventual problem of grass growing.  I’ve been trying to pull out the roots by hand but this is proving to be a very very slow operation.  The three rows shown here are radishes, beets and carrots.  I also got peas, lettuce, spinach and swiss chard in the ground.

The weather was good enough to get some work done in the garden but it ended up being a race before the next rain cloud came overhead.  The sky looked dramatic but in the end nothing really fell to the ground.  My motto for this year is going to be:

“Unless it is raining; assume it won’t.”

The plot shown above I worked up and seeded to a mix of annual rye and white dutch clover.  I am hoping this will become the grazing plot for the chickens.  If it doesn’t germinate and grow enough by the time the chickens come out to the garden I’ve got a back-up plot that is basically a grass field already (although I’m still hoping to plant potatoes into it this summer).