It's All Greek to Me!

So I have decided to name the garden beds, because it is altogether too challenging to keep them straight in any other way. The Greek alphabet so far is working terrifically! Here is the nomenclature:

Of course, this is only about the northern third of the yard. The southern section will have the Phoenician – Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, etc. Aleph, Beth, and Gimel, are the grape vines. Daleth is the back fruit tree. The Sweet Gum is He and the southern Maple is Zayin. The rest will apply as things come up.

Aside from that, I did plant a few things on Saturday – viz., lettuce (little Caesar and Val d'Orge), carrots (Nantes), leeks (bandit), celery (celebration), shell peas, radishes (Cherry Belle), spinach (Viroflay), and onions (Valencia).

The sky is pretty overcast today and there is a "60%" chance of rain tomorrow. The low temperature is predicted to be 38 tomorrow as well! I hope the seeds do alright. I think they will. The soil on Saturday (after mid-30's Friday night into Saturday) was a minimum of 43F in Rossville, and that was 4" deep, more like 46F at 2" deep. The seeds are not even 1" deep so I think it'll be fine, as long as it's not a heavy rain that washes them away.

AT LAST I HAVE THE UPDATED GARDEN PLANS FOR YOU! They are pretty different from when I started out, and will probably change again before the final analysis (that is, as I plant them!).

Most of this bed was planted Saturday, but, as I mentioned, the plans are not completely true-to-life. Where the middle chives are I put about a foot of leeks.

Gamma:

This is Delta, Epsilon, & Zeta.

All of Zeta save the eggplant and peppers was planted Saturday.

Iota, Kappa, and Lambda.

Kappa is the strawberry patch (planted Valencia onions on the northern and southern sides as well as the top division, central, on Saturday 04/16). Iota and Lambda are to have spring cover crops and subsequent rotations of vegetables – probably zucchini and squash.

Mu and Nu! The Asparagi.

Neither of these has anything planted yet.

And this is the bed by the clothes line.

Besides Iota and Lambda - Eta & Theta, Rho & Sigma, and Xi, will be hosting cover crops this year, but unlike Iota and Lambda, these others will not be used for sowing crops until next year.