The nice weather was back this weekend so I made sure to get some solid gardening time in on Saturday. I started the day out by starting my attack on the gout weed in the front bed. I carefully applied the weed killer to the gout weed using a paint brush to avoid getting it on the other plants. I'm not sure if that got enough on the gout weed though. It should have started limping by now but it hasn't. I'm thinking I'll need to try again next weekend, but perhaps with an eye-dropper or the like.

I also started to clean out the sidewalk bed. Not too much - just cleared out some trash and cut back some of the dead growth. It still needs lots of cleaning but it is a good start.

Then I ventured out back. I cleaned out the other rear-most bed and planted my super-sugar snap peas. I also found some germinating snow-pea seeds that must have fallen last year. So I gathered them all up, coated them with some inoculant (I did the same with the new sugar-snap peas) and had enough snow-pea seeds to plant an entire square. This is the first time I've used inoculant on the peas - hopefully the plants will like it and produce more heavily.

The shallots also appear to have survived the winter. They are in the same bed as the peas. I ended up splitting a few of them to spread them out more evenly in the row (a 4x1 foot row). Hopefully they'll produce lots of great shallots this year. I just overwintered them on a whim - I hope it works out as planned.

I also took my first photos of the garden. Check them out in the image galleries. Here's a shot of my shallots: