It is Feb. 28th and spring  will be  here soon in Iowa.   I can't wait, just to see green grass and have leaves on the trees, but mostly to see what the previous owner has planted and what will be  growing. I have been told there is  asparagus, and rhubarb,  I  hope there is both.  I brought my Smooth Solomans Seal plant  from MN and planted it here last fall,  I hope it made it as  I am thinking it will need to be  moved  again to a more suitable spot.
     The above  pictures  are my choices  for a garden, the top on has a  fence line on the east and north sides and the bottom has  fence on the west and north sides.  Both are in the same pasture area one just faces east the other west. Both will have  direct sunlight.  I am thinking  the top area  is  my preference.   Now the next   issue will be  " how big".  Since this will be my first  garden I really think I need to start small and if things  go well expand in the years  to come.  
    I have been making lists of what I would like to plant,   sweet corn, pumpkins, potatoes, tomatoes , carrots , green beans, lettuce- greens ( there are packs  that have a  variety of seeds), onion, garlic,green pepper, and marigolds  around the edges to help  deter the neighborhood  deer !!  That seemed  to  have helped in Hastings. So I may have lofty  ideas,  but they are just that plans, ideas.