The plants are waking up! The hydrangeas and lilac started putting out buds last week, and this week the ume started. The poor ume is unfortunately half-dead due to an unfortunate encounter with the weed-eater last year. Oops.
The daffodils have also been growing above ground for about a week. As I drive around town, I notice lots of daffodils that are already blooming. I suppose mine are running late.
I finally prepped the garden beds this past weekend. Now I'm all sore - I guess my gardening muscles got soft over the winter! I turned some aged horse manure into the raised beds and then stapled black garbage bags over them. The idea is for the black plastic to prevent weeds from sprouting until I'm ready to plant, then the plastic is going away. This year I'm going to try using wheat straw as a garden mulch.
I haven't planted my seeds yet, that's next on the list.
While cleaning up the garden, I found a zucchini left over from last year. Some sort of critter had chewed a hole in it, and the insides appear to be pretty much dried out. I'm planning to plant some of those seeds to see if they'll grow.
As far as wild herbs go, I have a nice crop of chickweed, and the cleaver's situation looks promising. I also think the violets are reappearing, but the leaves are so small now that it's hard for me to be certain. I've definitely got to harvest the chickweed soon because the yard is looking kinda furry and the grass needs to be mown! (I'm not looking forward to starting that up again, either. *sigh*)
Most surprising of all is that the tulips have reappeared! I was thinking they were dead since the dear munched on their leaves last year. But over half of them came up! I actually haven't seen any sign of deer this winter. I hope last year was a fluke.
The daffodils have also been growing above ground for about a week. As I drive around town, I notice lots of daffodils that are already blooming. I suppose mine are running late.
I finally prepped the garden beds this past weekend. Now I'm all sore - I guess my gardening muscles got soft over the winter! I turned some aged horse manure into the raised beds and then stapled black garbage bags over them. The idea is for the black plastic to prevent weeds from sprouting until I'm ready to plant, then the plastic is going away. This year I'm going to try using wheat straw as a garden mulch.
I haven't planted my seeds yet, that's next on the list.
While cleaning up the garden, I found a zucchini left over from last year. Some sort of critter had chewed a hole in it, and the insides appear to be pretty much dried out. I'm planning to plant some of those seeds to see if they'll grow.
As far as wild herbs go, I have a nice crop of chickweed, and the cleaver's situation looks promising. I also think the violets are reappearing, but the leaves are so small now that it's hard for me to be certain. I've definitely got to harvest the chickweed soon because the yard is looking kinda furry and the grass needs to be mown! (I'm not looking forward to starting that up again, either. *sigh*)
Most surprising of all is that the tulips have reappeared! I was thinking they were dead since the dear munched on their leaves last year. But over half of them came up! I actually haven't seen any sign of deer this winter. I hope last year was a fluke.
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