First strawberry harvest!

I got strawberries!
First year!

10 berries from last year did not count :)

My everyday greens (lettuce, borago leavesm parsley, cilantro, asian greens) -

I am making green smoothy for breakfast. The recipes are different, I usually use banana, apple or orange, 1 cup of water and a bunch of greens.


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Daffodils at last

My daffodils are up!

We are living in a north side of the hills so they are late.

 Japanese pieris in bloom.

 Baby spinach

Green peas- the fist one, started inside in February, look not very healthy, but still the first.

 The first guy in the block, Niagara grapes.

 Another strawberry bed , just covered with black mulch. And tulips in the middle.

 The tomatoes in the greenhouse, mulched with shredded leaves and junipers.

 Cuces - the first one.

 Greens - kohlrabi, red mustard and napa cabbage.

 Another green bed

 First asparagus Mary Washington, planted last year.

 Red currant - my love

Spring is fast, working hard

About 50 outside! I am so excited to be outside!

This is my 2 days report.

Planted all the carrots (paper towel mats, 3 days, almost all seed germinated). You can see some paper towel mats are covered with compost and some are not.

also planted a lot of radishes, regular and Asian variety. My overwintered tatsoi is ready to bolt, I am harvesting it now.

 My friend is adding a room to the house, she has a lot of dirt after digging, so we brought some bins of soil in a future greenhouse. I will mi it with my compost. I never had enough compost!

Frame of the hoop house is almost done, but I am too busy with other stuff like plating and cleaning than building now.

 A llok at the garden - green in a cold frame.

 First peas - planted on March 10.

 Onion Stuttgarter planted today.

 Strawberries are alive - so nice!. I transplanted them in the middle of the winter.

 Some brassicas are ready to transplant.

 All of them in place.

 Look at those roots!
Napa cabbage Munuet

 4 of them are very good, I hope the weather will be not cold for them.









Kohlrabi

 Kale blue dwarf












Today was a big clean-up day.
This was a End of the Garden Mess - actually raspberry patch. A lot of fall leaves were collected there. And rocks, and twigs....

I cleaned everything, checked all the raspberry (I have 2nd year transplants), pruned them, added compost.



Is it the same place?
I also added trellis support.

 And those are new guys in the garden!
Gooseberry

 Raspberry jewel

 Black currants behind the raspberries.

Still cold outside

I am tired of waiting, where is the warmth?

We had snow at night again!
Anyway I have so much work to do, I am spending 2-3 hr last days.
There is my second butch of tomatoes , need to be transplanted.

 Basil at last! First time nothing was germinated, this time I used per-sprouted seeds.

 Chard on the windowsill is getting really large!

 My fennel - first time.

 Okra, I loved okra last year on the sunny porch.

 Celery Utah, transplanted and thinned.

 The biggest celery is now 4 inches long.

 Peppers.

 Greens on the top room.

 Mostly kohlrabi and broccoli are waiting to be planted outside.

 New container of cilantro.

 Borago - first time!

 Turnips.









 Asian greens.

 Yesterday with a help of my husband (thank you!) I added 5 more beds. Some are not finished and under black plastic. I do not turn the soil, just lay fall leaves right on the grass, than homemade compost+soil from woods.

I checked last year bed where I plan to grow carrots this year.  The soil is perfect, as I see, easy to dig, as butter! I just removed old mulch, ad turned the soil. Upper level is almost black, below the soil is more clay-look but can not compare with regular soil I have everywhere.
So my lazy raised bed method is working.

 Signs of sorrel

 I accidentally dump wood ash on the blueberry this winter. Now I am correcting this, removing all old mulch and adding a layer of compost.

 Strawberry Ozark beauty planted in early winter, now covered with black plastic.

 First irregular strawberry bed is cleaned and thinned from runners. There is mostly Ozark Beauty and Allstar. Last year I did not have strawberry, only some of them. So this year (second) I believe I will have a good harvest!