Garden

How does my garden grow?

Surprisingly, it is doing quite well. Surprising, because it is not normal for anything except tumble weeds to grow here. Surprising, because I may or may not have on one or more occasions forgotten to turn off the water and attempted to drown all plants. Surprising because I might have thought the plants had enough water only to find them all laying on the ground trying to dig their way to find their own water the next day.

In fact, it has been so pretty and doing, over all, so well, I might have enjoyed the color too much and missed harvesting something.

Like the broccoli -see the pretty petite yellow flowers? And the cauliflower.

However, look how well others are doing:

 The Romaine Lettuce looks refreshing

 The kale is nearly out of control and we are anxiously waiting for the peas to be ready.

At last count, I have 29 potato plants. These are blue potatoes. When the sprouts first come up, the leaves are a rich purple color. We also have red potatoes coming.

 Squash from seed is coming too! I planted 4 varieties and I think we have 12 plants. They are spread out enough, I think we got all 4 varieties coming even! Spaghetti and summer squash, zucchini and pumpkin!

The tomatoes are beginning to form fruit. The peppers and cucumbers are doing well also.

Before I had a large area to plant, I had a couple of containers and planted onions.

They are doing well!  I have approximately 30 onions of 3 different varieties planted. In the middle are iris's, which I'll transplant to the big permanent garden later, when one does that, I don't actually know.

It's not all just green though:

 The daffodils are blooming and I have several colors of my favorite Gerber daisies.

This weekend we picked our first fruits of our labor:

Spinach, kale, romaine lettuce, and a little bit of cauliflower we could save. I trimmed back the broccoli, maybe we'll get some small shoots, maybe not, it's pretty warm now.

I know my North Dakota friends got more snow this weekend. Here is my sharing of spring and nicer weather to come!