Spring Garden Pics

The spring garden was off to a late start this year but the weather has finally truly settled and now everything is looking great. We're trying a couple of new varieties this year, one that I'm super happy with is the bush snap peas, seems like they will mature a little earlier than the trellis type, which we planted too, so maybe we'll have a steady supply for a couple of weeks. I love snap peas and they are really easy to grow... 

Another new thing we're trying is growing clover between most of the rows in the garden, we're hoping it will be less work than the way we were mulching last year. 

Bush Snap Peas

Here are some pics of the different lettuces we're growing for our salad mix. Everything was chosen for its heat tolerance, so we can have lettuce a little later in the season. We'll see how that goes.

Lollo Rossa

Red Sails

Jericho Romaine

 One plant that seems to have loved the cold winter we had is the spinach, I've never had such good luck with spinach grown from seed. Look forward to seeing some of this at the market!

The flower garden is starting to fill out, too. I spent some time out there this week trying to combat crabgrass, a losing battle.

Iris

The hens we got earlier in the year have started laying! We mixed them in with the older hens, as you can see one isn't really a hen, we ended up with a couple of roosters by mistake.

Happy Chickens!

Here are a few more pictures I took over the last couple of weeks. The field next door has exploded with buttercups, so pretty.

Our cherry trees were covered in butterflies a couple of weeks ago, I was amazed at how many suddenly appeared just as the cherry trees were starting to bloom. There would literally be dozens on the trees at a time. They were so into feeding, I was able to get some really close-up shots without them flying away. The tree is covered in little green cherries now, hopefully it won't be long until they're ready.