Another picture post!

Columbine is one of my favorite flowers.

The beans are settling in ok.


Yukon Gold potatoes showing off their skirt of old straw. With the garlic in the background.


My raspberries are flowering already!


I think the cucumbers are getting impatient for their spot in the garden.

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Cucumbers are doing well.


The scarlet runner beans are ready to plant out today!


I love how vigorous cilantro grows. Why is parsley so slow?


Last year's parsnip that I'm letting go to seed as an experiment.


The first poppy of the year.


This is the first year my white lilac has blossomed. Worth the wait. :)


Finally the oak tree is leafing out. The hardwoods do take longer, don't they?


I've got some garden work to do today. Happily, the wind is not blowing gale force like yesterday.

Ah ha!

I thought yesterday was a great day for gardening...but it wasn't a patch on today! Warm, sunny day but with a nice breeze to keep me cool while working. It's fantastic having two nice days on the weekend.

When I was the youngest of four kids on a farm with a huge garden my job was weeding the onions (makes sense to give the easiest job to the least reliable worker). Even today nothing is quite as relaxing for me as sitting down next the onions and pricking out every single weed. I have some of the oddest cues to flashback to my childhood.

I planted out the cabbages I had started inside to fill in empty spaces. The peas are within a few days of being ready so I started a second batch and another row of carrots. I still have a tray of marigolds to plant and I want to put a bale of straw around the potatoes.

This is my little polytunnel. It's the largest for the smallest price I could find and it's just big enough for my tomatoes. I started looking when I realized the growing season was going to end before I would get much out of my plants. Today it's windy and definitely nippy outside, but toasty warm in there. My plan is for the straw bales to protect the tunnel from strong winds then mulch the garden next year.

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As you can see the tunnel barely covers the tomatoes. It was fun putting it up without damaging the plants!