One week after planting seeds, and getting all kinds
of rain, the sun occasionally popping out; some of my seeds started
sprouting.
Here’s a brief look at some of the Purple Podded Pole Beans,
and my Kentucky Wonder Bush.
The cucumbers are coming in nicely. Eventually when they reach about 2 inches, I
will thin each ceramic pot out allowing the healthy seedling the appropriate space
to grow.
My Yukon Gold potatoes were also planted last week,
and with all the rain, one of the tires had a little seedling popping out of
the soil. I went to place straw over the
top of the seedling, and when I placed my hand down in the tire, a baby
copperhead snake came out of the soil at the edge of the tire and attempted to
get my hand. I dropped everything, and
ran over to get my shovel. By the time I
got back that darn copperhead went back into the soil, down in a hole. Now I’m going to really have to be careful
around my tires, and carry the shovel with me at all times.
Here’s a picture of my strawberries. I got rid of some of the old plants, and planted
new ones in place of the old ones. This
season, I down-sized everything in my garden…..including the strawberries.
As you can see the strawberry plants are already
producing strawberries, not enough to harvest and put away….YET!!!!
Here’s a picture of the volunteer cabbage plants
which continued to grow through the winter.
I’m waiting to see if they’ll grow large enough to harvest.
In addition to the cabbage, I also have volunteer
celery. Part of the celery died off with
the cold winter, the other part decided to continue to flourish. It looks like I’ll be able to harvest a good
bunch of celery to eat for the next several weeks.
Here are last year’s chives, still growing and are now
starting to seed.
My next post, I’ll talk about the tomato and pepper
plants we’ve planted in the raised beds and the herbs which continue to grow
from last season.
I also completed two more crochet blankets, and
several dish cloths to add to my kitchen collection. Here’s a picture of one of the finished
blankets. I’m not showing the other
larger blanket, because it’s meant as a gift to my sister. My sister reads my blog; I don’t want her
seeing the completed project…..she’ll have to wait :-)
Other updates, Bulldog Man will be going in for
another MRI on his lower spine tomorrow.
About 1 ½ weeks ago he bent down to pickup his backpack for work, and
when he did, he pulled his back. Bulldog
Man is a disabled veteran, we knew somewhere down the line he would have to
have additional surgeries. We’ve been
trying to put them off as long as possible.
Now we need to see what’s going on, and meet with the neurosurgeon to
determine a plan of action. No
complaints, life continues on.
Blessings!
