My daffodils are blooming, the bright yellow ones I planted last fall by the driveway and the pale ones by the hawthorn tree. Last fall I planted a bunch of blue bulbs by the hawthorn. Only a few of them came back this year.Â
Tulips are getting ready to bloom, and the hostas are sending up green spikes that need to be caged in chicken wire before the rabbits find them.
On to vegetables. Everything is planted, though it’s early. Two weeks ago I put in peas, spinach, beets, mixed lettuces, fennel, and dill seeds. Everything’s up except the spinach and the peas in front (different kind of peas than in back, and of course I don’t remember which are which), and it looks like the fennel and dill didn’t sprout. But the whole garden is covered in little tiny green things that are probably weeds, so it’s hard to tell. My rhubarb is up, too. This year we get to eat a little bit of it.
Last week someone at work was selling tomato seedlings, and then when I went to buy pots to put them in, the store had their plants in…so now I’ve got orange and red bell peppers, Anaheim peppers, two different types of eggplant, and 5 different tomatoes – two small red types, a lemon drop (yellow), a black krim, and a green zebra. I like the names. I hope they’ll do better than last year’s tomatoes. I’ve put them all in pots on the opposite end of the yard from the vegetable bed, where I think there might be a little bit more sun.
In May I’ll investigate the state of the spinach, dill, and fennel and replant.