The Garden Grows

Final week Matt determined the time was proper to maneuver the seedlings into the greenhouse.  They’re trying fairly nice, particularly the artichokes and peppers.  

Pepper and artichoke seedlings.  4/18/2024

Ginger is again to hanging out within the backyard day-after-day.  She’s so pleased.  Rolling within the sunshine.  Consuming grass.

Ginger stole my lounge chair.  Transfer your ft and lose your seat!  4/14/2024

Matt harvested some child spinach from the greenhouse this weekend.  That is the primary harvest of the yr.  It was rapidly included in green smoothies and salads.

Spinach within the greenhouse.  4/24/2024

The squirrels and the blue jays are in hilarous competitors to who will get the day by day ration of peanuts I placed on the porch.  The blue jays look ahead to me to come back out with the peanuts within the morning, I swear.  It’s like nature TV out the entrance window.

A blue jay with a peanut.  4/30/2024

The garlic are a number of inches tall.  The peas are simply beginning to come up.

Matt making a furrow for peas.  4/14/2024

Matt has been weeding the Wildflower Walkway.  As we hoped, it appears to be like like a lot of totally different perennials are coming again.  We purchased a number of totally different seed mixes to increase it with even additional this yr.  

Lobelia seedlings.  4/18/2024

Our first tulip bloomed this week.  There are such a lot of extra to come back.  The black rabbits ate all of the grape hyacinths.  I develop growing much less keen on the feral rabbits which can be taking on the neighborhood.  Even when they’re cute.

Violets within the again nook mattress.  4/14/2024

My birthday serviceberry bush Matt is blooming.  The lilacs Matt purchased me in 2023 and 2022 are leafing out and it appears to be like just like the older of the 2 may have its first blooms this yr.  Our apple tree began flowering this week.  Matt briefly feared he’d been too sturdy in pruning the raspberry canes, however they’re leafing out now, too.  

The apple tree makes actually fairly pink flowers.  Even the buds are fairly.  4/24/2024

I added some contemporary chives to the sesame-ginger sauce we had with dinner final night time.  The mint, sage, oregano, and others are beginning to come again.  We’re nonetheless curious to see how properly the rosemary overwintered within the greenhouse.  To date it nonetheless simply appears to be like useless.

Matt planting peas and puttering in regards to the backyard.  4/14/2024

And so the backyard grows!