U is for up...as in...In the Garden the week of April 25th. Our weather as always is up and down. But what is pushing up through the soft earth is amazing. Cutting back our mammoth rhubarb severely last seems to have worked. It is throwing up more shoots that we can imagine. Since the stalks off of this plant have traditionally been young and tender at the size of B's arm, I suspect we will have surplus up for grabs!
The garlic is growing literally before our eyes, and this weekend the storage onion starts went into the ground.
We also cut the lavender back to the ground, no small task with 25 mature plants, but this years harvest promises to be as large as ever! Though the sun-chokes have not emerged yet, we prepped the area in front of them for spring sugar snap peas.
Oh, and B got the potatoes in. Though they are not up yet, we have had tremendous luck with the layering technique. Simply plop them on the ground and cover with a layer of straw. As they come up we will layer compost and more straw to continue to bury them as they grow. This allows for very loose soil and a simple harvest!
Though our plan was to move asparagus this past weekend, with everything else on the to do list coupled with a full soccer schedule it did not happen. Now with these crazy on again and off again temperatures, it has grown like crazy over the last few days. So this year we will remain upbeat and eat a final batch from this patch :)
I got this post in just under the wire! Do you have anything coming up in your garden yet?
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