Quick Mid-Spring Update

The first lilac flower opened this morning, the pansies are beautiful, and the dogwoods are in full bloom. It’s a lovely, lovely spring—if anything it’s been too warm for our winter-sluggish bodies!

Suddenly it’s not early anymore—I’m feeling a little stress starting to build—it’s really time to get the garden in! All I want to do is play with the flowers, though.

I got two boxes of potatoes from Tom Wagner last week. In those two boxes, I think I counted 48 different varieties—in some cases there was only one nickel-sized potato of a particular variety! I’m very excited about those.

Speaking of lots of varieties, I started 19 different varieties of tomatoes last week, instead of my usual 4 or 5. I’ve cut back on peppers, though, and if I grow eggplant at all, it will be from plants I buy. The greenhouse is delightful right now!

 

More Flowers

This picture is from yesterday morning. Today it’s too funky for taking pictures—there’s a gloppy wet snow sort of galumphing out of the sky. Last night we were all awake off and on all night because of the crazy storms.

Spring in the Mountains

It is gorgeous here right now—warm, breezy, sunny. Everything is blooming. The previous owner of this house planted quince and forsythia and bridal wreath spirea (I guess that’s what it is!) everywhere, so this time of year it really is beautiful.

Today is supposed to be around 80°. Tomorrow our high is going to be in the 40s with the horrible possibility of an inch of slushy snow. Sometimes I just don’t know.