Monday, April 28, 2025

Bees, daffs and garlic

There were some encouraging signs in the yard this week. With some rain and heat, the garlic shot up past four inches and I've now put a bunch of leaf mulch around it to try and suppress the weeds and retain some moisture.


I planted the beets and peas this week (after some bed maintenance) and also a large bed of greens (lettuce, arugula, kale, more lettuce, and some ancient kohlrabi seeds). A bucket of self-seeded lettuce also announced itself.


The daffodils are up and the first bees have taken to sleeping in them.



The rhubarb has also returned after a hard year last year due to drought.


Some shots of the beet and carrots beds out front.
 

I'm also seeing some life in the fruit trees, with the cherries, saskatoons, and plums budding up. Raspberry canes are also sending out new leaves and the haskap (below) are flowering.

This week, I have some more bed maintenance to do and I'm hopeful to snag some city compost (went on Sunday but they were cleaned out) to rejuvenate some beds with a bit of a top dressing. The potatoes are chitting in the windows and will likely go in the ground next week. And the first of the squash seeds has germinated in the window sill!

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