Spring is Here 2015!

March 24 , 2015  Hello Spring!

Last week on St. Patrick's Day I had a drive by garden working. This is how some of our rural areas work. No drama here. :-) I had though she would wait another week. However, St. Patrick's Day is the official day to plant potatoes here and she had 4 gardens to work so she was going to get it done. As I had never had any luck with potatoes, they are not on my agenda. Regardless it is good to see it worked as I had gotten the tomato cages up and all the trash raked and burned up. It was a little damp as we'd gotten some rain and are to get more this afternoon. In anticipation of an early garden, I did go get some broccoli plants and seeds for kale, spinach, onion sets and a tray of saliva. Coming home I got poured on.....

I set outside the pots of chives, lemon thyme and regular thyme from my unheated plant room last weekend. They are in front of my garage on the east side. This keeps them from being fried in the warmer days ahead. I will set them inside Friday night as it is predicted to be 24 degrees on Saturday morning. Glad I do not have any tomatoes or peppers out!

Already, I've had some fresh chives on my salads. Yum! Common chives have twice the vitamin C as oranges without the sugar. After Saturday morning the weather is supposed to be getting better. By this time next week I should have my early garden planted and maybe some of it coming up if my dog does not dig it back up. Here it is Friday and now the garden is sopping wet.

My 5 chickens are laying 3-5 eggs a day, keeping me busy eating eggs. My daughter in law and the grandkids love to pick out baby chicks to raise so I will be getting more ....