Rhubarb, bulbs, bees, and onions

We've been working pretty hard in the yard weeding. It feels like we're starting to get a handling on creeping bell flower as well as the crab grass. I guess we'll see now that we've had some rain and a bit of sun! All of the disruption from the garage build has made its easier to get the roots out as the plants pop up.

The rhubarb came back out front, despite Epcor's best efforts to directional drill it into oblivion. Looks like five plants survived, which is lots.

The bees are also back, having a go at the early bulbs.

The back lawn is still slow growing (but the seed had germinated). We managed to have a fire on the part of the lawn where the grass is okay. Looking forward to getting a proper fire patio installed later this summer.

Around the side, the perennials are coming back, with both wild onion and mint up.

The peas are also coming up in the raised beds. I'm not too sure of the soil quality here but we'll see.

A few weeks back, I finally bought new garden tools from Apache Seeds. Our old collection (some 20 years old) has finally started to fail. Great tools, but the shovel is heavy duty (15 pounds!). Should last a long time.

It rained a fair bit the past few days so I got some time to organize the garage and get some stuff up off the floor. Jess than planted some pansy seeds in the bucket by the door and we put a package of California poppies in our bed at the community league.

 I'm hopeful it will be warm enough that we can put some of our bedding plants in this week.