As the weather has warmed up, the garden is coming on strong! The first crop of spinach will go into a frittata tonight (picture below was almost a week ago). I've started a row of rocket in behind it.
The strawberries are also blooming below Jessica's window. She has seeded in some poppies and they have germinated, although competition from the lily of the valley is fierce.
The few flowers we bought this spring are doing okay in pots on the front steps. With all of the free time we have this year, I have been busy doing things like sweeping out the corners of the steps and repainting and sealing the pillars.
The blue crab are up out front. Some of the russets have also come up. But more of the russets are not yet up--we'll see how things are in a week or two and then maybe move to plan B if the seed is a bust.
This ground cover is nice enough (no idea wha it is called) and fills in the space between the raspberries and the saskatoons nicely. We finally finished thinning out the dead raspberry stalks from last year and burned the last night. This will, perhaps, be our last fire in the old fire pit as we wait for the garage demolition to start.
The radishes are doing well in this pot. I may thin them and add the leaves to the frittata.
The peas are also up out front and out back. The ones in the back are a bit further along and have started to grab the trellis.
The beets are also up and large enough to start thinning them. There is one section where none came up (for whatever reason) so we have filled in with some rocket.
Finally, the apple tree really blossomed out this week and I'm hopeful for a good crop.
This coming week will continue to entail a lot of weeding in the front beds where we dropped a bunch of dirt over top perennials last fall. Jess and I are also making some kind of dandelion-based hand salve (we have LOTS of time this year for goofy projects).
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