Everything happens so fast now. The lilacs just came into bloom last week (one week’s salad worth) and now they are done. The honeysuckle is now in bloom. I hope it will last, the little flowers smell so sweet and are also edible. The yellow irises in the backyard smell absolutely wonderful. The jacob’s ladders have flowered along with the lungwort. Evening primrose is getting so tall I’m sure its petals will grace our salads soon too.
Here are a few pictures for you. Spring is such a refreshing time of year.
The continuing Plant Sale here is going well. I do have hundreds, and I mean hundreds, of quite a variety of heirloom tomatoes and almost that many peppers available if you’re in need. We had quite a crowd here Tuesday morning up-potting tomatoes until every single little tomato seedling on the property was happily placed into a larger pot to ensure continued root development and rapid growth. What a productive time it was.
The Greenhouse beds are getting more and more full of hot pepper plants each day. The salad greens growing outside are enjoying the rain, sun isn’t greens’ best friend so a little cloud is welcome. We were setting up soaker systems in many of the gardens today and will keep that up until it’s completely done. Carrots, onions, beans, peas, snow peas and more salad mixes have been planted and more are waiting to go in. Several of the lettuces designated to be heads are coming along nicely.
We’re still and will mostly always be seeding new plants to give them a head start in pots before transplanting time. Pea Shoots (they call them Pea Tendrils in the City but I find that name a little creepy like they’re going to wrap themselves around you) are ready this week. We’ll start more sunnys tomorrow.
The chipmunk couple living in the Greenhouse thinks they are better gardeners than we are and keep planting sunflowers seeds amongst our vegetables, not only in the beds and gardens but right in the pots beside the stem of the plants! The little darlings :)
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