Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Spring is here


This is our garden this Spring.  We have had boatloads of strawberries and four varieties of lettuce to start the Spring.  The strawberries were planted last Spring and I deflowered all the plants through the season so they would get a good start growing a root system and now we have delicious berries everywhere.  The lettuce is romaine, bib, red and green leaf with some mesclun mix thrown in.  Very good and of course all organic makes it all taste so delicious.  The asparagus has given up some great tasting goodness that we have enjoyed as well.  Then there is cilantro, parsley, and a first for me has been the rhubarb that finally survived our hot humid summers to give us some wonderful rhubarb pie.  Whoa that was amazing!  The black raspberry bushes are producing and the birds have had there fill with them.  Next year I will net the plants so we can have berries to make jam.  Tomatoes are planted along with some pepper plants that are all doing well with all the goat manure trucked in.  Green beans, cucumbers, watermelon, lima beans, sunflowers, marigolds and one eggplant are what is left.  Oh, I forgot about the onions and dill.  That's about it.  The Spring has been great so far with plenty of rain and sun to get everything of to a good start.  Now time to keep the weeds and suckers pulled the bugs squashed and enjoy a great harvest Lord willing.  



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