After sitting in the dental chair for nearly 3 hours yesterday all I wanted to do when I got home was take a nap, and then sit out on the back patio and get finish up a few rug hooking projects I’ve been working on this week.
I know I’ve said it before, but I really love this time of year. I love being able to pop outside for a few minutes each day to plant a few seeds or to fill a container garden with spring starts.
Lucy loves to tag along as well, sniffing out treasures and soaking up the sunshine. Which was pretty rare this winter here in the Pacific Northwest.
Do you have a strawberry patch? Are your berries bouncing back yet? It’s hard to imagine I’ll be picking berries 90 days from now.
And our laurel hedge in the back. I love watching it’s tiny flowers get ready to bloom.
But lately, it’s the dance of the hostas that I’m most eager to watch when I sit outside with my cuppa each morning. Last week their tips had just broken the soil… and this week the hosta plants are about 6 inches high.
Spring… I love it. So many gifts are being unwrapped before our very eyes.
Have a great weekend everyone,
Mavis and Lucy
Heather Bamberg says
I have a questions about early spring planting: what are the low temperatures in your area right now? Is it freezing at night? I am dying to get my seedlings in early this year but I have never planted before late April/early May. Here in high elevation Northern Arizona we get late frosts through April. This year I have installed a greenhouse, prepped my raised beds, planted my potatoes and onions, as well as started most of my seedlings indoors, and I am ready to plant a few of the most mature seedlings: but they are predicting a few nights of 28degree lows in the next week. I see you have seeded peas, transplanted lettuce etc.; are you playing after the last frost danger or before?
Beverly Collins says
Hi Mavis – It’s Beverly from Spencer, North Carolina. I already have strawberries around my back door garden that are full of blooms and some have little green strawberries the size of my little finger. Several years ago I bought a packet of dying strawberry plants from Walmart and brought them home, put them in the back flower bed. They took off like crazy. They are the kind that bear the entire season too. Last year I picked about six gallons of sweet juicy berries. They put off runners and have rounded the corner of the house and going down the flower bed in the driveway. They are protected from frost next to the house and the dirt is good and rich from years of mulch breaking down. I can’t wait to eat fresh strawberries (though I confess I still have some left to eat in the freezer and also lots of jam). Love both of your blogs and read them every day. I have a small garden out back that is full of weeds right now and I am working judiciously trying to get them all out. A load of compost is going out after the weeds are gone and a load of good rich mulch on top of that. I hope to harvest this year. Last year I fought the deer and poor soil and the only crop I had was lettuce and carrots – not even a tomato! I’ll report back on my progress as the season goes on.