Spring Has Sprung

 We are finally getting some things in the big garden. The schedule was complicated by snowstorms and windy weather. Here's what we've planted so far:

potatoes

 collards

 broccoli and cauliflower

lettuce

kale

 peppers

They all seem pretty happy for now. We just hope the wind doesn't blow their heads off and that the deer prefer the salad in the rest of the field to our little garden patch. I'm waiting one more day for the big wind to blow by before I put the tomatoes in the ground. 

 

Some of them are already making tomatoes in their little bitty pots. 

 I bet they will like to stretch out their roots in the warm moist soil.

The feral zinnias are back. We have decided to just let them go for it in their two beds. I planted some sunflower seeds among them and a few Swiss chard plants that I had. 

We also planted pea, radish, spinach, and beet seeds, but they haven't come up yet.

The little garden continues to be a joy. The poppies have popped.

 The Crawford lettuce is beautiful.

 The Swiss chard has shot up.

We have cilantro all over the place.

 The lavender is blooming.

 The bronze fennel survived the cold,

 as did the mint and Mexican mint marigold.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                       

And it looks like a peach tree has sprouted from the compost. We also have a few feral Crawford lettuces by the picnic table. I was winnowing seeds there last fall. I guess a few got loose.