Plant Sale!

Big day at the plant sale today. About half of them are in the ground...More planting and pictures tomorrow!

More seedlings!

My onion sets and scallion seeds are sprouting! I also think I have the first set of carrots coming up...but I won't know for sure until I get back from my trip.

The butterfly garden is also coming along nicely. The hyacinths are blooming and the Asiatic Lilies are coming up nicely!

We had a downpour last night, enough to give us 2" of rain! Off for a few days, but will be back for the weekend!

Dinner

So I know this is a gardening blog and our Sunday night dinner menu is a bit off topic, but tonight I made a roast duck with a baby greens salad, roasted asparagus, mashed potatoes, and a lovely syrah.  We finished it off with a little lemon and raspberry sorbet.  It was delicious! 

Live Trap 1 - Ground Squirrel 0

We woke up to a big, healthy ground squirrel in our live trap this morning!  He is currently on his way to some naturalised lands outside of town a few miles away.  We set the trap up at the entrance of the den, so I'm pretty sure we got the guy chomping on the veggies.  If he wasn't eating my garden, I'd probably let him stay...he's pretty cute!

The little mouse-like rodent (a vole maybe?) was not to be found...but maybe now that the pile of grass clippings is gone, he won't come around anymore.

Big thanks goes out to Brad for the rodent removal!

Butterfly Garden, April 2012

The Lilacs started blooming yesterday!  Not such great news as we're supposed to have another chance at frost overnight, but I have faith they'll make it through.  I've also included a picture of the butterfly garden in April.  I was doing some spring cleaning in the garden and started pulling up perennials, so I decided to stop.

On a side note, it was so nice out yesterday we got the pool out for Honey.  This is her hunting bubbles.


Bubble Hunting, April 2012

Potatoes

I've planted about half of the potatoes (the other half will go in the ground after we catch that rodent) and a second planting of kohlrabi, green and red romaine, and green butterhead lettuce.

Most importantly, the live trap is in the ground!

Now it's a beautiful, 70F day out hear so I'm going to go back outside and enjoy it!

Trellis

The first trellis for the peas is officially in the garden!  If the peas seem to like it, we'll put in another 2-3 for the 2nd pea planting and the pole beans.  For about $40, I don't think it's too bad for a 4-sided pyramid trellis.  We get 8 feet of plantings in a 2'x2' square!

We didn't get the potatoes in the ground tonight - decided to go out and play BINGO instead ("we" won $99!).  Won't get done tomorrow either, but Saturday is looking promising.

We did get the live trap though - hopefully it'll go in the ground tomorrow.  Rascally rodent.

We have our second planting of spinach, beets and a couple of the lettuces coming up (I didn't have time to check which ones - but I'll check this weekend).

Grrr

The rodent under the shed ate half my pea sprouts.  grrrr.  We did get the pea trellis assembled however, will take pictures tomorrow when it's light out.

Another frost warning tonight.  More of the same.

Didn't have time to get the potatoes in, but with this rodent issue I'm not sure I want to put them in the ground right by his nest...

More tomorrow.