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Spring is coming!

Posted 3/1/2010 8:37pm by Meredith Mizell.

Although we had a great garden year in 2009, we all agreed we wanted to get an earlier start in 2010. So even though tomorrow's forecast for our part of South Carolina is 2-4" of snow, little parsley, onion, cabbage, and leek seedlings are up and growing in the greenhouse. Sugar snap peas are sprouting between paper towels on the kitchen counter; literally hundreds of seed packets wait their turn, organized by start date in a cardboard box on the dining room table.

In the meantime, the garlic is growing (as are the weeds!) - even though we probably lost a fair bit of the last variety we managed to get in the ground between the heavy rains in December. But that still leaves us with at least five times as much garlic in the ground as last year, so we're very excited to see how things turn out as we get closer to the harvest in May.

If you've followed us over the years, you'll notice that our website has undergone a major - and desperately needed - overhaul. We'll be adding much more content as spring progresses, and the recipe section will be of particular interest as we add more of our family's favorite recipes and develop new ones to utilize the vegetables and herbs we grow and offer as transplants.

So despite the chilly weather on tap for the next few days, our minds are already firmly fixed on spring.

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