25 April 2013 Walk around - delayed post

It is interesting to look back 2 months and see where the garden was back then

The spice garden - chives and tarragon getting a head start

Perilla getting started in a warm spot

One of four new water barrels that brings my capacity to 385 gallons in total 

Also notice the hollyhock getting started at the base

My two measly daffodils

Spinach, lettuce, radish, carrot

Raspberries getting started

Currants

Columbine

The new onion patch

Rhubarb

Sedum

??? what's it?

Peonies

Mini sedum

I thought I killed it...

Irises got some rearranging

Tulip

First harvest - catch up

I ate two nice radishes and a pile of lettuce with my lunch today. First harvest is so rewarding, especially in May.

We are finally catching up with some rain. The barrels are full but need some height adjustments - the ground does seem to settle quite a bit under 50+ gallons of water.

One hibiscus sprout showed this week and I fear that is all that survived. We lost other perennials too.

Somebody is eating my currents while they are quite green.

Mowed the lawn on Tuesday for the 3rd time this year.

Lawn mowing

I have mowed twice already, on the 4th and the 12th. It needs it again today, the 20th, but I was hoping for some rain. Needs fertilizer too, which means cutting it shorter and timing it with rain forecasts.

I've got some catching up to do

Some posting is due.
It is prime season for planting and sprouting and the return to life in the garden, and I have done little to keep track of it this year. Something seems off...
I have pictures to keep some of it straight, but they need to be posted to be of use.
I have been working hard on the garden though, and that makes up for the lack of record keeping...

Water

Lots of flooding in the region, but we stayed dry. I added 2 rain barrels and now we have more rain. 250+ gallons of water are ready to flow to the garden. 2 more rain barrels to be hooked up in the front yard. 375+ gallons of free water once I get the stands constructed. My forearms are wrecked from moving bricks. Thursday's therapy is really going to hurt.

Pictures to come, once it stops raining...

Freeze tonight

I will have to cover up the new sprouts. Maybe the currants too.

new growth and lots of rain

Despite 4.5" of rain overnight, we have new sprouts of lettuce and radish poking up in the north bed.
Many of the red onions were washed down the slope in a rush of water and mud where I had cleared some land. Silly me.

Currants are putting up shoots and I cleared some mulch from the bases today.

Sedum is everywhere growing fast. Other north side perennials are starting too.

Raked the front yard on Tuesday.