Well, my kale hasn't fully bolted yet, does that count?
I futzed (phutzed?) around and didn't get my spring/summer garden planted.
I'm thinking with our long growing season I could still plant some okra, tomatoes and peppers. It won't even think of getting cold until November, after all.
Wow. Maybe I should get bunnies.
We have lots of spinach, lettuce, and radishes. I was late planting the broccoli, so it's only now sprouting. The tomatoes and bell pepper plants are looking better, but are nowhere near bearing. The pole beans are growing like crazy. And most of the herbs are doing really well.
Sadly, my rosemary bush appears to be dead. Damn.
When I lived up north, it was dangerous to plant anything outside before Memorial Day, but maybe the avid gardners had things starting up in those little planters indoors.
The local lore is not to plant until Victoria Day weekend (a week before memorial day in the US) but my partner is English and knows what can go in before all danger of frost is past. We have arugula, lettuce, radishes, beets, spinach etc planted and even ate some arugula yesterday. Peas and beans are just coming up. We are eating rhubarb. Other stuff is in seed trays and being hardened off. It will go in soon.
My garden is lush with spring flowers, but my kabocha and sweet dumpling squash are only 2" tall and still only have their baby leaves even though they are living it up in little plastic seedling greenhouses to protect them from any chance of frost or drought. (We typically consider it "safe" outside after Memorial Day here, and not one minute before.) Also, as you may recall, when last I commented on this topic here I had stuck some very old seed peas in the ground just to see what would happen. One of them grew and is now a whopping four inches tall. I have no idea what kind it is.
The best news of all is that this year (as opposed to last year) I have already seen many bees.
Please scritch the bunnies for me!
Well, we've got the peas up, but not nearly as far along as yours. We've also got some Black-seeded Simpson lettuce, some Anaheim pepper plants I optimistically transplanted last weekend, and a half-dozen basil plants, also optimistically planted a week early.
We'll see if it all lives...
Most of my herbs are in bloom, sage, rosemary, thyme, mint, borage. Today I seed the veggie bed with pumpkins and cucumbers. Rhubarb is spent. Strawberry plants are finally waking up. Flowers I got lilac, blue bells, tulips and icelandic poppies. I need to hack the hedge ceders back to shape, winter snow made them all saggy.
I forgot, we have a ginger (edible) doing beautifully and ready to transplant along with a freesia (not edible). I had a beautiful avocado, but I moved it into the sun too soon, so it's no longer.
I rescued my last rosemary from the bindweed (which claimed its companions) and I think it will be fine.
I figured I'd have basil by now (reseeds every year) but I haven't seen it, so maybe it won't reseed.
I gambled, and planted a package of mixed lettuce, and some spinach in one of my raised beds - a full month before Memorial Day. It has sprouted, and I plan to have a lovely spring salad to celebrate Memorial Day!
Trees and flowers have only recently bloomed in Massachusetts, but at least fresh corn is in the stores. Good eating.
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I'm in the NW corner of Washington, 30 miles from Canada. I've got snap peas on the way in a couple of weeks, a good start on the lettuces, and I've got my tomatoes, eggplants and peppers all hardened off and ready to go into their pots when I have some time this weekend. My blueberries and sage are blooming.
up here in N. Indiana I have three gorgeous lettuce plants that--no shit--I planted last fall a little too late (they got covered with snow). I went to Ireland for the latter part of the winter and when I came back, they popped back up and are doing beautifully. I had no idea that lettuce could be perennial. I wonder if it's some sort of mutant lettuce, though, whose perniciousness should be taken as a sign of poisonousness. Or at least an omen of some sort?
I am so pumped at the idea of getting bunnies. What a great idea. Our neigbors have goats that live solely on the vegetation in this lush Hawaiian jungle where we live, and a couple of bunnies would be in heaven here.
Who says blogging is a waste of time? This is an inspiration.
Sara -- I'm so glad someone's seeing bees. We haven't seen so many here this spring.
Hattie and Casey -- yes, bunnies are the way to go. They're such sweet pets and so eco-friendly. No barking, either!
We got the first tomato of the season today -- a marble-sized golden cherry tomato which my three-year-old devoured on the spot.
Here in Virginia on Bull Run Mountain I've got blooms on my tomato plants, Little jalapenos growing, cucumbers sprouting, bean plants three inches tall, lots of swiss chard & butterhead lettuce; basil, parsley & cilantro and eggplant that I really hope will do something this year! Please! I'm so stubborn, I keep trying, flea beetles be damned! Last year I sprayed chewin' tobacco tea on the plants, and really thought I had 'em beat. I got some blooms, but no fruit. This year I got some groovy stuff from "Gardener's Supply" to spritz; made with garlic, cottonseed,peppermint and rosemary oil. Oh, and cantaloupe plants too...
Those bunnies look quite pooped! Cute picture!
I have 4 bunnies of my own and they play outside while I read the newspaper and they poop all over my garden- my question is, for extra umpf, should I compost the poop? Thanks!!
It's up to you, Kelly. I compost most of ours because we generate so much "green" stuff for the compost bin (produce, leftovers, weeds) that I need more, ahem, "brown" nitrogen-rich stuff to break it all down faster. If I didn't have three overflowing compost bins, I'd probably just toss it straight onto the garden.
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