This is the most fun time because everything in the garden is going on.  I am fertilizing and watering, still planting some seeds.  I’m also picking vegetables to eat (more on this in a bit), and I’m pulling weeds and spraying roundup on a new planting area.  There are very few bugs which is a real bonus.  My dirt is perfect, but I do wish we had more rain. The cold cold winter has been hard on some of my plants:

The hydrangeas, nandina, and butterfly bush are alive, but nearly everything above ground is dead so it’s like starting over.  I think the roses did okay, but too soon to tell.

The redbud and dogwood trees are fine, just late blooming.

The plum tree doesn’t have any blooms–all frozen.  The three apple trees are in various stages of fruitfulness from lots to nearly none. (sprayed and fertilized)

Most of my perennials are coming back.

My herbs did pretty well:  tarragon great (used it in the potato salad for our Easter dinner), thyme partial, mint okay, chives great.  However, my beautiful rosemary plant–maybe three years old–seems to be dead as a doornail.  I’ve started some rosemary seeds, and more parsley.  I have some thyme and sage inside that I’ll replant, and some coriander seeds to plant.

I think the blueberries will be fine–seem to have lots of buds.  (fertilized)

I’ve weeded, mulched, sprayed, and cut back where needed.

In my vegetable garden, I planted all the cold weather plants in early March, and because of the cold weather the seeds were dormant until early April. Besides the asparagas, onions, and garlic that were already planted, I’ve got romaine, kale (2 kinds), spinach (some from last fall), beets, chard, scallions, green peas, sugar snap peas, carrots, and radishes.  Everything is up and looking healthy.  We’ve been eating asparagus.  The other night we had a great salad of kale thinnings, spinach, and romaine thinnings.  Last night I had a salad of spinach and beet green thinnings.  Also very good.

The green house–oh my!  I have figs, the hydrangea is blooming, the lavender,  tomatoes and peppers are doing well, and the cucumbers have bloomed and have baby cucumbers!!!  I’ll plant these in the garden in the next few days–working on hardening them off now.

My hanging baskets and planters are doing okay but could be better.  Hopefully they will do better when they get outside in the sun.

It’s fun, and healthy.