Its early February, but it sure has felt more like early April the last week or so.  Its been very nice, in the 70's this week, but today it was only in the low 50s.  The long term forecast doesn't look to bad either, but that can change in a hurry.... who knows?  Maybe we'll have a snow or ice storm in the end of the month... very possible.

The big thing I did today was to further expand my garden area again. Since we knocked down the tree, now I have a much bigger area to expand into.

The picture above shows where I have expanded the garden since early January.  Today I added about another 5 x 6 area.    The lettuce I had in pots I decided to plant in that area, since they were getting too big for the pot, and since we are leaving next week for Haiti with a group from our church, Watermark Community Church, I didn't want to burden my parents with having to water them when they came over to take care of our dog, Maggie.   I also planted some more lettuce seed, carrots seeds, and radish in that area.
The celery plants I had in pots, I also planted, for the same reason.  So I am hoping we don't have a strong cold spell while we are gone, otherwise I'll probably lose a number of plants.  We'll only be gone for a week.

A few weeks ago, we sowed some peas, in the newer plot, and as you can see in the back, they have come up already.  I also planted a few collard and cabbage plants I had started in small pots.  On the left of the picture you can see a headless cabbage. (meaning, I harvested it)  I've been leaving the plants in the ground after we pick them because I read you can get smaller heads from the side-shoots.

Here's a picture of some of our cabbage plants.  The one on the lower left is pretty much ready to eat.  You can see on the upper right, if you look closely you can see a headless cabbage, whose side shoots have started growing pretty well.

And below is  a picture of the garden looking at it from the end.  The yellow flowers in the middle are broccoli that has bolted. I have kept it around because the bees really like it, and I want to keep the bees happy.  Plus I might get some seeds from it.