First spring vegetables

Today we had the first “harvest” of the season – a big bunch of asparagus.  Delicious! We are mere days away from the first spring salad; I’ve already tasted some spinach and radishes.  I thinned a few today and got some radishes big enough to eat; I have two plantings in, currently, and probably will do a third planting on Friday, if the weather cooperates.

Some of last year’s tulip plantings are up and beginning to open.  I love this mauve color.

Earthworms are out in force.  Every day I’m surprised to see them up on top of the soil, moving from place to place.  Sometimes there are several dozen in just one shovelful of garden soil.

Blueberry update: Things are looking amazing! It seems we have finally solved the rabbit issue; we may have hundreds of blossoms this year – and we’re crossing our fingers for berries.  If we can protect the bushes a few more years, I believe they will be too large for the rabbits to do much significant damage.

Peas! I’m not sure if these were planted early enough.  I readily admit I’ve been a miserable failure with peas.  The kids are not amused at these futile attempts, as peas are one of their favorite garden foods – they eat them right off the buhes.  These are a small variety, just a bush pea a few feet high.  Our weather here tends to get hot too quickly, following the last frost, and then the plants wither.  This variety is called “Frosty” and can go in earlier, so I’m hoping we’ll get something.  They have withstood a couple frosts already.

The stuff that looks like sawdust – is sawdust.  The city spent all day in the neighbor’s tree making several large trimmings – and the sawdust and small twigs, along with some bigger branches, are littering a large area of my yard.  Frustrating.  At least no big limbs fell (to my knowledge).