Garden Pics and a funny one of the cat

It is still cold and rainy, not even broken into the 70's yet!  So the garden is kind of hibernating on the warmer weather plants.  But my cool weather plants are loving it!

I'm not sure how our cat got into the tree like this, but he was stuck when I took this pic.

When good rhubarb goes bad

bed with lettuce and spinach

The new strawberry bed

the first two rows from left are potatoes already coming up and the third is beets, carrots, radishes, and turnips

peas and tomatoes

garlic rashes and salad mix

things that haven't come up yet

The apple trees

my lilac bush, sadly almost done

the herb garden

mints

horseradish

Things Are Blooming

Now that we have had a couple of days of almost 50 degree weather things are starting to bloom.  Last year at this time my lilacs were in full blossom and I filled the house with them for mothers day. This year?  Not even close!  But so many other things are blooming!  I love flowers, especially old fashioned ones like pansys, foxglove, lupines, etc!

My pansies are back, these are vollenteers from last year.  I transplanted a bunch to differnet areas of the yard.

Dafodilles are one of my favorite flowers so I planted allot of them.

Blossoms on our apple trees! YAY!

Both our peach trees made it through a very bad winter

Tending The Garden

Although I wont say spring is here (we had mini snow storms all last week) I can get out and plant some early spring crops.

Husband planted a row of potatoes on Monday and on Tuesday I planted (under extreme duress) carrots, beets, radishes, kale, musclen, and garlic.

On Wednesday I planted peas and today I hope to plant more peas and spinach and lettuce mix.  More garlic too is going to be spread around because not only do we love garlic but it also keeps that bad beasties at bay.

Many of these crops are rotational crops, meaning that once they are done I plant something else there. This gives me much more food in our small space.

Rhubarb is coming up

The first crop of spring has got to be rhubarb.  Our plants get huge every year.  Last year I wasn't able to use ours but this year I am determined to use it for something no matter what!  I've found several yummy looking recipes and can't wait to try them.