Today was a beautiful day. We had temps in at least the 50s, and it was sunny. The snow is melting, and I planted a new bed full of perennial vegetables. Here are some pictures from this nice spring day:
Here you can see our yard is on it’s way to being snow-free. It’s taking awhile. This picture is taken from outside of our dog fence, near the garage. On the left you can kind of see my garden, which is still half covered. The garlic bed started to peak out of the snow today, and that was the deepest part of the snow in the actual garden.Here is the house with some snow around it – we have a metal roof so the snow falls around the house and those snowbanks always take longer to melt.Here is our chicken-coop path currently. It’s a low, muddy mess. Luckily we have muck boots to wear when we go to the chicken coop. The ducks love this area – they dabble their bills in the puddles when they pass though. (When the snow is all melted and the ground dries out, the “path” actually disappears, but it’s been a pathway for the last several months).Here is a new bed I’m creating near the garage for some perennial flowers and vegetables – I originally planned for just sunchokes and crosnes in this area but I think I will put some milkweeds and gogi berries as well since there is enough room. This is a good spot in case the sunchokes go a little invasive, as I’ve heard they can. This area is out of the way, just grassy, and it could use some nice flowers – sunchokes are supposed to have yellow flowers and be nice and tall. I set this up last weekend, and I thought I would have a week or so for the plastic to kill the grass, but I did not; the sunchokes and crosnes arrived sooner than I thought they would.Here are the sunchokes – they arrived the other day. I got two kinds, a red (on the left) and white fuseau, on the right. I got three tubers of each kind.Here are Crosnes (aka Chinese Artichokes). These are pretty small but they are supposed to be delicious, and a very easy to grow perennial. I read that you should cut the plants before they flower in order to get tubers of decent size though, so I plan on doing that. I ordered 6 tubers – I think I actually received 8 but some were very small.Here is the sunchoke and crosnes portion of the bed planted. I left the rest of the bed with the plastic on it so it can continue to cook in the sun for awhile. I laid fencing over the bed to keep chickens out – it’s very sandy and they would love to make this into a dust bath area. I will fence it soon and then will be able to take this cover off.I went wandering the woods and yard a bit today – I found some moss that had greened up already – here is a bug’s eye view of the moss.We have crocuses blooming! Here are some white flowers.Here are some purple crocus. We have daffodil leaves emerging too.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 9:15 PM My tiny u.p. farm wrote:
> Jen Powell posted: “Today was a beautiful day. We had temps in at least > the 50s, and it was sunny. The snow is melting, and I planted a new bed > full of perennial vegetables. Here are some pictures from this nice spring > day: ” >
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 9:15 PM My tiny u.p. farm wrote:
> Jen Powell posted: “Today was a beautiful day. We had temps in at least > the 50s, and it was sunny. The snow is melting, and I planted a new bed > full of perennial vegetables. Here are some pictures from this nice spring > day: ” >
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