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Garden and Yard

The seeds (Tomato, Eggplant & Artichoke) I planted last weekend are already starting to germinate! Not much, but just poking through the potting soil. Yea!

The weather was so nice I hoed the garden and planted the 1st row of peas.

I have a large pile of leaf mulch, courtesy of neighbor Rick, to put between the rows once the garden is set.

The ice on the pond in the background is melting rapidly and the redwing blackbirds and Canada geese have been checking it out.

The crocus and daffodils are flowering. The bees are already checking out the blossoms.

“Cullen Underfoot*” was also checking out the blossoms and bees.

*Name not yet approved…..

 

 

Our Spring Yard

This weekend I dug up two clumps of rhubarb – one went to Linda Boucheron and one to George Mierek. So now we are down to 3 clumps of rhubarb. I plan to use the extra space for 25 more asparagus plants.

On Saturday I got our seedlings from Oneida County Soil and Water Conservation District. The 20 Blueberry bushes went in the yard and were mulched with pine needles to make the soil more acidic.

Most of the Douglas Fir seedlings went into the rough area near the silo. The rest went in along Kirkland Road and 6 along the SW corner of our yard.

Our early flowers are in full bloom daffodils in our yard.

Last fall we experimented with naturalization of daffodils in the woods. We planted ~50 bulbs in the south facing slope across the road from our house. They were hard to plant due to the tree roots. Surprisingly most all of them seemed to sprout and some are starting to blossum already.