Baking and early seeding

After a flame out last year (blogging, not gardening), I'm back with renewed conviction this year.

We've been baking quite a bit more since we're indoors so much. This week, I used up several jars of pie filling we canned last summer.

I've also gotten back into bread making (bridging us between grocery runs, mostly). This week, I plan to try some buns.

Spring has been late so we've been pining for the yard. About two weeks ago, we planted spinach seeds on the new beds we made on the south side of the house. The old garage is coming down this spring, so we moved the backyard soil last fall.

We've also been growing some veggies from the butts. I've always known celery and leeks would re-grow but never had the time or interest to try. So far, we have one celery plant and two leeks doing well. I have a second celery plant in water to develop some roots.

As the snow has receded (rapidly in the past few days), the south beds have become much easier to work. Some chives that survived the move have some up.

We were also able to smooth out the dirt we dumped last fall and plant some onion sets. I have a bit of retaining wall to build here this week from some bricks we recovered from the back.

We had a huge garlic harvest last year. We've been eating as much as we can and we supply out own see last fall. But we still have 30 heads left. We tried roasting (meh?) so I'll be looking at incorporating it into some buns, I think.

The front garden is almost melted out this week and it looks like summer is here. It is too earlier for potatoes (soil still frozen) bit we could likely get some lettuce and some peas in the ground and the remaining lawn cleaned up.