Spring arrived with a bit of a warm bluster around here. It wasn’t quite the day we’d planned, for a lot of reasons, but spring began anyway and it started with cleaning and seedlings.
While Mike turned the manure/compost pile and managed the brush burning pile, I organized seedlings and hauled chicken feed various places. So far I haven’t started nearly the volume of seedlings this year as I have the past two as I’m 1) trying to restrain myself, 2) planning to plant to maximize the plants’ abilities to grow in a “dry” garden and 3) I keep forgetting to stop and get the ingredients for seed starting medium so I’m having to conserve it. Oh well, we’ve got more than enough brassicas, tomatoes and peppers going for us – there will just be fewer to give away to everyone else. Tomorrow night I’ll start another mixed flat of tomatillos, ground cherries and lettuce.
At the end of the day, we both felt pretty good about the progress we’d made. Of course, I still haven’t weeded the raspberries and blueberries, leaving them as an eyesore in the center of the driveway. Oh well, luckily spring has 90 days left in it.
Anyone need partially composted manure for their garden/pile? Lemme know if you do!
Parsley in the front, cabbage in the back
Tomatoes!
Seedlings deemed too small for the cold frame - back under the lights!
Broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and spinach in the cold frame to harden off.
Then today we rode horses with friends Shelli and Todd (hey you two!) and watched it pour while we were dry under the tree canopy enjoying some lunch.
Todd and Mike looking at the rain and out to Puget Sound.
How did you celebrate the arrival of spring?
