Asparagus!

The first asparagus spear of the year has appeared and I'm so ready for asparagus. My husband has been asking me every day for the last week if we have asparagus yet. It will start off slow, I have a couple plants that send up a shoot before the rest, so I won't have enough for dinner for about another week. I'm even more excited this year because last year I took the time and plants another twenty asparagus plants. It will take a couple years but I will have double my current asparagus when they all get mature.

Spring Planting Time!

We are planting the spring garden tomorrow and I'm so excited. The plants you see above are the ones that are going in the ground. Everything has just come together really well for this Saturday:

• It rained all week but it's sunny today and tomorrow so the ground should be dry enough to till.
• The person we have till can be there first thing in the morning.
• It's supposed to rain on Sunday so I don't have to water.
• The seedlings are hardened off and looking great.
• It's supposed to be highs of 60 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny - perfect gardening weather.
• My mother is coming up so someone can keep an eye on the baby (she doesn't garden).

It's my dad and I who plant the garden, neither my husband or my mother enjoy growing the food - they just help eat it. You might be wondering why I have someone come and till my garden. I do own a small tiller, but with a garden my size it is completely worth it to me to pay someone to till the larger part. We have the same guy come every year. He has a tractor with a tiller attached and can do an excellent job is a tenth of the time it would take us with the little tiller. I use the little tiller for the terraces and other places where the tractor couldn't reach.

Spring Blooms

We got a good rain over the last couple of days, and so everything is growing in full force. My grass has gone from brown to green, the trees all have blooms, and the weeds have started to sprout.

The next wave of bulbs is blooming, the ones that bloom after the snow drops but before the daffodils. It must be slightly cooler at my house because I see daffodil flowers in the yards on my drive to work but mine are still coming up from the dirt.