They just need to grow a little. We still need to fill in with some more, but we made a good start today. Flowers on the front porch and back, cherry tomatoes in pots on the deck, and veggies over by the red shed (a.k.a. sugar shack in another season). Over there we planted more tomatoes, white and red radishes, yellow squash, sunflowers along the west side, and we're trying some seeds for herbs that were packaged in 1996. Just an experiment...can anything grow from old seeds? Not heirloom, just old.
And the big news today is that the road weight restrictions are off as of noon tomorrow, so our load of compost/dirt for our raised beds is going to be delivered tomorrow afternoon! Yes! So we'll have to fit more gardening in with our other project downtown tomorrow - painting the pavilion next to the Town Hall. It's not a huge job - three gables painted white and a whole bunch of supporting posts to be painted forest green. I'm happy there are posts to paint because I won't be up on ladders doing gables. All part of the "spiff up the town" project. Pictures to come tomorrow, I'm sure.
And finally, our first (surprise) harvest - asparagus! It's a surprise because we had no hopes for the pitiful little plants we put in last year and some asparagus seeds we planted last year in the base of the old silo pit. To our surprise, both the pitiful plants and the seeds grew and produced this year!
Put together with some other vegetables and we had stir-fry tonight! And I guess we also harvested rhubarb today, but that was a given for spring in the north. So I made a rhubarb/strawberry crisp tonight. Yum!
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Spring is awesome!
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