Yup, blueberries in full bloom, apple trees starting to bloom, head lettuce and brussel sprouts transplanted to the garden from the green house and spinache coming up from our seeds we saved from last years crop. Beets, tomatoes, cilantro and bush beans in the green house waiting for the middle of may. So far so good.
I grow in raised beds using 8'X 4 cattle watering troughs. Did my yearly soil amendment top off, working in; compost, kelp meal, a little oyster shell flour and, trace mineral powder. I am currently germinating lettuce and spinach seeds.
Holding off on planting cherry tomato starts for now.
I planted garlic and shallots last fall, and yellow storing onions mid-March. Planted short rows of leaf and romaine lettuce 3 weeks ago. Started cabbage and broccoli in the house along with more leaf and romaine lettuce, tomatoes, basil, and peppers. Planted the cabbage and broccoli a week ago, some of the lettuce starts yesterday, the rest will go in in May, so are still under a grow light, or are sitting on the patio in pots. Planted chard, kohlrabi, carrots and beets from seed yesterday.
Asian pears have bloomed and dropped their blossoms, early apples and bartlett pears are blooming now along with brooks plums. Blueberries are in full bloom, and bumblebees are very active working their blossoms. Herbs are going wild (rosemary, sage, oregano, and thyme) along with some elephant garlic, all planted in rounds cut from a 55 gallon plastic barrel. I can see how some of them could be invasive, they grow and spread very rapidly. But the weather really is deceptive, boysenberries and hardy kiwi are just now really leafing out. Lot of spring ahead, hopefully with some rain.
Got busy last weekend and turned on the irrigation. Put in tomatoes, 3 different lettuce, chard, broccoli, zucchini, corn, garlic, potatoes and seed for beets, carrots and spinach. Once it warms up there’s a few more things to come, and the blueberries and apples are getting started.
Our over-wintered crops did very well .... the purple sprouting broccoli is the favorite.
I've got a large container so rather than planting potatoes in the ground where rodents damage so many, I'm going to try growing the taters in the container.
Same here Fishyfeet, a couple messes of asparagus in the gut and drooling thinking about the next mess. Our celery wintered over and been having it in elk stews.:food:
Wife finally caught me in a moment of weakness this year, so I’m building her the garden she wants.
24’ x 40’ space excavated 6” below grade.
Post holes drilled this afternoon.
Trench cut in for water line from the barn.
16) 12’ 6x6 posts go in tomorrow, along with another post for the yard hydrant and hose reel, ground cloth will go down next with 2-3” of compacted 3/4-minus gravel and then 4” of pea gravel. I’ve got redwood coming for 8 new raised beds, and then the 8’ tall wire panel fence with bird netting on the inside. Finish it off with 65# braid stretched over the top at 6” intervals... been a busy few days, and have several more to go...
Put up a trail camera in one raised bed, and going to plant some more lettuce. Something ate the and dug up one of the broccoli plants and the lettuce. Cutworms got sprayed for as they got the peas.
Starts in the bay window. Burned the branch piles (and weeds) in the garden today. Picked asparagus and over wintered onions and radish. Will till this coming week hopefully and plant early stuff that should have been planted last month.
Pretty much a hillbilly so we BBQ a lot. Usually lay the asparagus out on a pie pan that has olive oil wiped on it, cube up some mushrooms of your favorite flavor and add to the asparagus then chop up a couple cloves of garlic from the garden and put on top along with some black pepper. Cover it with aluminum foil and put it in the bbq while grilling something dead. Cook to your favorite tenderness and pig out:excited:
I bought a house that was an elderly lady's and its all flowering stuff, I'm going to try to fit some edible stuff in somewhere or selectively replace plants with better ones.
Magnolias and rhododendrons aren't my thing but I also hate to rip them out, but berries would be far superior, still working up to it. The ground cover is watercress at least, I'll eat that.
They just turned on our irrigation today. Going to have to think about it now.
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