Somebody Likes the Kale!

Well, we have a creature that has been nipping the tops of the kale starts we planted last Wednesday. I hope it doesn't move on to the peas-I put some onions spaced between the peas, so maybe that will help!
Thanks to Deb for the stakes & the red crabapple tree. We planted it today where the sign will go, on the corner. The sign is almost ready. Next time I decide to hand letter a fancy schmancy art deco lettered sign, I hope I remember this occasion as it is not as easy as I thought it would be! Still, kind of fun in a tedious way and it is almost finished, so...enough complaining!
Planted some beets, carrots, and radishes on Sunday and the radishes are already poking through. Radishes always amaze me with their eagerness to get out into the world. I read that its a good idea to put radishes in your rows of carrot seeds, because carrots take a longer time and the radishes not only mark the rows right away but they also help loosen the soil. Boy does our soil need loosening! :)
I still need to find a truck to go get more compost and mulch. The grass in the planting beds will surely win the war without some mulch. Someone told me today that certain grass, when you chop it up with a tiller, will sprout new roots from each little piece. EEK! I hope it isn't all grass, just the super dominant kind.
Next on the agenda: keep fighting the grass battle, put up the sign, plant flowers in front of the sign (I have started zinnias, marigolds, and sunflowers at home), and then when it warms up plant the warm weather stuff.