[extended weekend]

Starting tomorrow I have four days off. By having that much time off I'd really like to be able to get some major projects done at the house. It's kind of early, but I think that if I get enough work done in the garden, I may end up planting a lot of little plants there. I'd really like to give some of our seedlings some time to mature, but the fact is that we've got a lot of little plants growing on our enclosed porch, and I think that if I don't get some of them in the ground we're going to go outside one day hand have a wild forest on our hands. I'll be planting the cold-hardy plants outside first. I've got the garlic growing nicely that I planted last fall. We also found some onions and potatoes at Sam's Club. Those will almost definitely get planted in the ground tomorrow. I've also got some lettuce seed that are packaged as a tape so that when planted in the garden they are guaranteed to be spaced correctly.

Before I plant my peas beans and cucumbers I'll have to put up my trellis along the driveway. Last year I put this trellis up and used gardening twine to allow the plants to grow up it. The problem with that was that the twine started to fray a little. That in itself was not a huge deal because it gave the plants a place to grab and climb. The problem that arose was that the sting ended up stretching and became loose. This year I am thinking about using some metal wire and lacing it up on the trellis like I had last year. The advantage I see in that is that it won't stretch, and will be rigid enough that it will stay spaced exactly as I have it. I'm a little worried thought that it will be harder for the climbing plants to grab the trellis and grow up it. I guess we'll see what happens.