A hawk has been hanging around our yard and garden. We've been leaving out bird seed pretty frequently resulting in unexpected sunflower plants, savvy squirrels, blue jays, house sparrows, cardinals, red breasted grosbeaks, and several other birds. The hawk in this picture is perched on one of the tallest post of the garden. Our garden is home to many sized frogs, snakes, and field mice.
On the front steps of our house we planted strawberries, red cabbage, kale, pansies, lettuce, basil, and the last one I can't remember (in order from left to right). The strawberries went missing but they definitely came and went. The cabbage is doing really well. The kale was eaten by worms (the ones in the garden are doing really well), the pansies are stalled. The lettuce is stalled but the basil is doing really well despite the lack of drainage in the pot. However, the heat has certainly compensated along with an occasional dumping out the extra water. With the exception of the missing strawberries and worms these plants have done pretty good.
We harvest our first veggies of the season -- broccoli, sugar snap peas, beat leaves, kale leaves, onion -- Aaron made a veggie stir fry served on a bed of brown rice. It was so yummy!
It's small but getting bigger. Aaron put a couple of branches in some water in a vase on our dining room table. It actually bloomed sooner than the plant in the ground. I am going to plant the branches. It's so beautiful! About a week or two ago driving around had views of mostly barren branches. Houses that looked plain and boring became vibrant and alive with the forsythia in it's wild self, manicured, and in sprays like fireworks. This one's a keeper!
The snow finally melted last month and we started to see the bulbs come up. When we first started our garden beds we took notes but then we switched beds and changed things around and I didn't do a good job of taking notes last year. This year Aaron and I are taking lots of notes. The above picture is of bulbs we planted and have now completely forgotten what they are. I want to say Hyacinth but I'm not sure. Any ideas?
