Spring weeding and finally getting the vegetable garden finalised!

It was pouring during easter, and every single weed lurking in the ground decided to sprout. Great time for weeding,; the ground is soft and they are easy to lift. There is no hurry, as there's still one and a half months to the last frost date. So I am doing it leisurely.

The groundworks to lead excess water away were finished late in the autumn, and now I can finally do the planned row of berry bushes around the garden. As a garden designer I want even the vegetable garden to be pretty. But just ornamentals sounds like a waste, so I am planting seven kinds of hardy berries.

Just wanted to share, a real feel-good kind of a job ❤️

Do you plant anything before last frost date? I find that lettuce can be planted any time the ground is not frozen solid. Radishes, carrots, greens also.

Well, root vegetables like carrot, parsnip and beetroot are hardy. They reside under thick mulch, which protects them too.
I have perennial lettuce Atriplex hortensis (and DANDELIONS GALORE🙄) so I don't plant very much of it. Seeds cost.

This perennial lettuce, by the way, is great. It grows 5 feet tall, tastes great and the red leaves make it a real beauty in an otherwise mainly green sea of veggies. It self-seeds profilically so once planted, it is maintenance-free.
Warmly recommended!