Spring is in the air and the snow pack is almost melted down enough we can see grass. It is too soon to garden, but I'm starting the annual freezer clean out. I found four litres of raspberries from last year (marginal crop due to heat and drought) so I made some jam and we ate the rest on cereal.
I also managed to shovel out enough of the fire pit to spend a lovely afternoon burning paper and reading a book by the fire.
Jess dug through my pile of old seed packs back in late February and picked out a bunch of tomato seeds and some basil to grow from seed. We finally got around to transplanting them last weekend.
On one of my rides out to St. Albert last fall, I picked two wild plums and brought them home. I let them rot down on the counter then froze them over the winter to try and start them this spring.
The internet suggested dropping them into a raw egg (for nutrients) and then covering them with dirt. We'll see how that plays out... smelly, would be my initial impression.
I have amassed a long list of outdoor stuff to do, including replacing a rotten fence post and fixing the fence on either side of it. I also picked up some extra trellis to us along the north side of the new fence for peas (the areas gets a lot of sun and bounce of the garage, despite being on the north side).
