We’ve got seedlings in flats all over the place, most of them waiting for us to finally be frost free so they can go outside - looks like that will happen this weekend. Outside there’s not much happening except for the basics. I’m behind on getting in more peas and the first of the radishes, spinach, arugula and lettuce from seed as it’s been either pouring rain or threatening snow on the days I could have seeded them. It was beginning to feel like spring would never get here!
Tonight though we found the first signs of new life in the garden. The peas that were planted on February 21st are finally peeking up their heads after being snowed on twice and frozen more times than I can count. It looks like 50-75% of them are actually going to appear, not bad considering I’d written them off a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully the next round will fare better…
I got a bit of a weeding urge after chopping in some cover crop and decided to start in on the asparagus row so that we can mulch them with compost this weekend. It’s easier to do it now before they come up, than later. And what should I find but the very first of them poking it’s head up. Yay! I caught this one as I was weeding but it should still be okay. Guess the mulching project just got a bit more urgent.
I put the raspberries in on the same day as the peas and already the first of them have started to bud out! This one is an everbearing black variety. Can’t wait for its first berries late this summer!
The blueberries have also started to bud, and we’ll be eagerly watching to see if there will be berries this year. With 10 tiny bushes we’ll have to hope for at least enough to snack on.
I would have taken a whole garden picture, but it really doesn’t look like much right now. Just half turned in cover crop, the same old poly tunnels and the beginnings of a very big spring weeding project…
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Your seedlings are standing tall. I’m not sure what is going on, but my lettuce seedlings are flopping over to the ground - growing, but growing tall and skinny. I’ll post pics over the weekend on the blog, but if you have any tips…. I’m excited to see how your blueberries do!
Weeding is on my to-do list as well. I was only gone two weeks but the weed height looks like I was away a month. I sure wish moles like weed roots. So far our smallest cat has caught two big ones.
Don’t you just love spring?
You can blame me: I questioned whether it was too early when you first planted them. I suppose I jinxed you.
I love the way they unfurl the leaves. So mysterious, yet ordinary. Are the asparagus to be eaten this year, or do you have to wait another year?