New Vegetable Varieties and Spring Preparation

My website, www.naturesgardenheirlooms.com, is being updated with some exciting new varieties and should be ready to view in the next week or two. I am expanding the tomato, pea, bean, lettuce, cucumber and pepper varieties with many more great choices for us northern gardeners.
The starlings are back and picking through my gardens for newly emerging bugs. Moths are gaining in nighttime population and butterflies have started to flit through the warming sunny days. I even thought I saw a frog bounce from the beaver pond mud flat into a grassy hummock. Though the temperatures are going up and down, spring is here, we just have to wait until it.... ripens.
The garden soil is still nice and crumply from the snow and ice melt which makes it a great time to weed. Roots are pulling effortlessly right now making the job faster and so much easier than it will be once those April showers flatten and compact the soil again.
Time to get out and enjoy those sunny days, getting gardens prepared for spring planting is a bonus. For me there is another good reason to weed now, I am trying to beat those immense clouds of marauding black flies. Wildlife in the countryside comes in all sizes!