Lawn

I will not mow my lawn in March. I have principles.

First blossom

First tulip blossom from 20 March 2012

Looks like rain, so I drained the rain barrels into the gardens, hoping for a free refill.

Today's walk around the garden starts with the new herb garden. Not pictured: the dozen daffodil blooms in my neighbor's yard, the magnolias three doors down, the perilla, sunflower volunteers...

Mary & Wyatt put in the transplants and we added a few seeds for fun. If we don't get frosted, we have quite a head start on the year.

The layout:

 Another shot of the spice garden 

Moss roses coming back

 Alyssum?

 I split and relocated this nice thing that I can never remember the name of. Better picture next.

Better picture of the 2nd transplant of the whateveritis.

 Rhubarb is happy. New, more pleasant stacking of bricks.

 The pile in the corner is the trumpet vine and small tree I cut down over the weekend. Nice brush pile.

 No more hog weed

First Tulip bud

 The raised bed with radishes, carrots and spinach

 Left over onion coming back

 Radishes

 Carrots

 Spinach

 Daffodils 

 Raspberry leaves

 Lilac buds

Lilies

 is it geranium or columbine?

 transplanted rose

 2011 hydrangea is budding

 something from Joan in 2011 is coming back

16 March 2012

Forsythia, maple trees, and cherry trees showing leaves.

Signs of spring

3 March 2012 - Red winged black birds
5 March 2012 - sump pump activated in absence of rain - frost out
9 March 2012 - Robins
10 March 2012 - Finches showing gold
12 March 2012 - Geese flocking north
15 March 2012 - Spring peepers in marshes

16 March 2012

Nothing much happening in the raised bed, except crab grass. 

New garden photos to document the early growth (click here for more):

14 March 2012

72°F and sunny is great weather to get started on the garden. Water my seedlings. Planted some seeds with Wyatt for an indoor grow box. More removing sod to make way for herbs and veggies.

Today: Rhubarb has started to show sprouts. Confirm 2 tulips on west side - had spotted one a couple of days ago. Daffodils are looking good. Herbs starting to come, too.

over half an inch of rain overnight, last night

3 March 2012

• First daffodil buds

10 March 2012

• First sedum buds spotted

11 March 2012

• Connected rain barrels
• Cut back butterfly bush - 2 years of growth, stacked on brush pile
• Stacked bricks by butterfly bush
• Cleared sod for new herb and veggie garden

12 March 2012

• plant in NW raised bed:

• 4 rows of spinach, s  
• 2 rows of carrots, mid
• 3 feet of radishes, n