The Jenkins Garden is in the ground, this morning, finished, kaput, one hundred percent!   Up here in the Sierra Foothills I am taking a bit of a chance (we occasionally get late spring cold snaps) but the weather is too beautiful, and I just couldn’t help myself, but, I compensated for my impatience with better preparation than usual.  Before the first seed or seedling went into the dirt:

• Preliminary plan drawn on paper.
• Weeds pulled by hand.
• Fences and trellis’s (trellises?) repaired.  (This is DEER country!)
• Irrigation systems redesigned, repaired, and tested (drip when I can; sprinkle when I must)
• Many (many) wheel barrows of compost trundled over from the bin and dug in.
• (Okay, kids, this is the scary part.  You may want to look away.  Slug and snail bait sprinkled around the perimeter.  Yeah, yeah, I know.)
• Bird screens repaired and standing at the ready.
• Every square inch raked and smoothed.

Time to go shopping!
Next:  Seeds and seedlings