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Almost caught up
Apr. 21st, 2012 09:01 pmNot that I'm eager to go back to work Monday, no, not at all. But I've actually gotten a few things done that I needed to do, aside from going to the convention last weekend. Of course, it's never as much as I'd like it to be, but it's progress of a sort.
None of the peas Gary planted have come up. I'm about to dig around in there and see whether they are still there and just didn't sprout, or something managed to dig them out and eat them all. We like snow peas, and the same thing happened last year. Other stuff is coming along nicely, though some spinach had to be planted twice. Several kinds of lettuce and other salad greens, cilantro, chard, and I think two kinds of spinach are now past the seedleaves and making real progress. Apple and pear blossoms are pretty much gone but I can't yet tell whether they set any fruit. I did cut another asparagus stalk yesterday, just the one. Soon there will be enough rhubarb for a pie. Blueberry blossoms are starting to open seriously, and I hope someone is going to be around to pollinate them.
The white trilliums are in full bloom now, right alongside the pink arches of bleeding hearts. This is weird. Normally the trilliums are long gone before the strings of little pink hearts appear. We still have a few stray daffodils and hyacinths, in fact. Hickory and catalpa are holding back their leaves still, but just about everything else is greening up. You might say the oaks are in "pinfeathers" rather than full leaf, but it won't be long now.
For anyone with a clear sky, the Lyrid meteor shower is in progress. It was clear and sunny here all day, but as usual when there's an interesting night sky event, it clouded up right at sunset. ;p
None of the peas Gary planted have come up. I'm about to dig around in there and see whether they are still there and just didn't sprout, or something managed to dig them out and eat them all. We like snow peas, and the same thing happened last year. Other stuff is coming along nicely, though some spinach had to be planted twice. Several kinds of lettuce and other salad greens, cilantro, chard, and I think two kinds of spinach are now past the seedleaves and making real progress. Apple and pear blossoms are pretty much gone but I can't yet tell whether they set any fruit. I did cut another asparagus stalk yesterday, just the one. Soon there will be enough rhubarb for a pie. Blueberry blossoms are starting to open seriously, and I hope someone is going to be around to pollinate them.
The white trilliums are in full bloom now, right alongside the pink arches of bleeding hearts. This is weird. Normally the trilliums are long gone before the strings of little pink hearts appear. We still have a few stray daffodils and hyacinths, in fact. Hickory and catalpa are holding back their leaves still, but just about everything else is greening up. You might say the oaks are in "pinfeathers" rather than full leaf, but it won't be long now.
For anyone with a clear sky, the Lyrid meteor shower is in progress. It was clear and sunny here all day, but as usual when there's an interesting night sky event, it clouded up right at sunset. ;p
