The Garden Grows

Artichoke leaves.  4/18/2024

Last week Matt decided the time was right to move the seedlings into the greenhouse.  They're looking pretty great, especially the artichokes and peppers.  

Pepper and artichoke seedlings.  4/18/2024

Ginger is back to hanging out in the garden every day.  She's so happy.  Rolling in the sunshine.  Eating grass.

Ginger stole my lounge chair.  Move your feet and lose your seat!  4/14/2024

Matt harvested some baby spinach from the greenhouse this weekend.  This is the first harvest of the year.  It was quickly included in green smoothies and salads.

Spinach in the greenhouse.  4/24/2024

The squirrels and the blue jays are in hilarous competition to who gets the daily ration of peanuts I put on the porch.  The blue jays wait for me to come out with the peanuts in the morning, I swear.  It is like nature TV out the front window.

A blue jay with a peanut.  4/30/2024

The garlic are several inches tall.  The peas are just starting to come up.

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

Matt has been weeding the Wildflower Walkway.  As we hoped, it looks like lots of different perennials are coming back.  We bought a few different seed mixes to expand it with even further this year.  

Lobelia seedlings.  4/18/2024

Our first tulip bloomed this week.  There are so many more to come.  The black rabbits ate all the grape hyacinths.  I grow increasing less fond of the feral rabbits that are taking over the neighborhood.  Even if they are cute.

Violets in the back corner bed.  4/14/2024

My birthday serviceberry bush Matt is blooming.  The lilacs Matt bought me in 2023 and 2022 are leafing out and it looks like the older of the two will have its first blooms this year.  Our apple tree started flowering this week.  Matt briefly feared he'd been too robust in pruning the raspberry canes, but they're leafing out now, too.  

The apple tree makes really pretty pink flowers.  Even the buds are pretty.  4/24/2024

I added some fresh chives to the sesame-ginger sauce we had with dinner last night.  The mint, sage, oregano, and others are starting to come back.  We are still curious to see how well the rosemary overwintered in the greenhouse.  So far it still just looks dead.

Matt planting peas and puttering about the garden.  4/14/2024

And so the garden grows!