We had a couple of beautiful days where it reached into the sixties! I cleaned out one of my flower beds. There are some wild irises and hollyhocks already coming up! I also planted a little over a dozen sugar snap peas in that bed. I have a trellis (sorta) in that bed and I decided that it would be just as pretty to grow something useful on it as it would if I planted just a flowering vine. I also got a lettuce bed started. I gave each of my girls a small plot to garden themselves. They both picked spinich and red lettuc and sugar snap peas for their gardens, along with a bunch of flowers. I helped them turn the soil lightly (we are on clay, so we have to turn it to keep it from turning to one solid brick) and they marked their rowed and planted their seeds. Little One complained that they were such small garden plots, but I know they will be plenty big enough once more weeds start coming up!
In addition to get some early seeds in the ground, I ordered some fruit trees from Gurney's. I got their Nova Spy apple tree because the apples are good for eating as well as baking, their Contender peach tree because it is both early and late frost tolerant and it is self-pollinating, I got their Planter blueberry bush because it is also self-pollinating and will do well in a pot (my other blueberry plant died and I needed something to fill it's pot), and last but not least I got two seedless Concord grape plants. I can't wait to get them in. I've never ordered anything live through the mail before, but I'm sure they will come through just fine! I have a dear friend who I will be getting a bunch of raspberry canes from, too. I am so excited to thing that in just a few, short years (ok, it will seem like forever, but still...) we will be getting fruit from our very own trees and plants!!! |
