in the hoophouse
The spinach is almost ready to pick! Lovely tender delicious and nutritious baby leaves…can’t wait!Also seeded in the hoophouse: lettuce for a fast crop of baby spring mix, arugula, radishes for harvest before the tomatoes go in for the summer….potatoes in the black pots for early new potato salad…yum!
sowing seeds in the greenhouse
Looking out to the garden from the seed starting greenhouse. So much going on in here these days!….I continue to sow cabbages, broccolis, cauliflowers, kales….. Cute little kales just beginning to germinate….These little cabbage seedlings will start going outside soon….
the apple trees
The apple trees are happy now. Dave came over to prune them a few days ago. He’s a master pruner extraordinaire! He loves the trees and does such a good job. They’re beginning to come alive with green now….
daffodil bouquets
I’ve been making the first garden flower arrangements of the season lately….spring has sprung and things are getting busy! These bouquets were sold at Happy Tides last week and I’m making more this week. Daffodils, star magnolia branches with big fat buds that are beginning to open into white flowers, alder branches with new bright [. . .]
tuscan kale
One of my favourite things about growing some of my own food is that we get to eat things that aren’t sold in the grocery stores or markets…delicacies like the tender and delicious kale flower buds that appear on my tuscan kale plants at this time of year. Here’s today’s harvest for tonight’s dinner….yum!Black Tuscan [. . .]