Sunday, March 20, 2011
Mud pie season begins today
I love it - the patio is littered with plastic cups, bowls, knives, and garden forks, watering cans, and spray bottles. All evidence that a 6 year old had hours of independent fun while mom got to sow spring veggie seeds.
Tucked into the garden today: baby corn, gai lan (Chinese broccoli), bok choy, atomic red carrots, chantenay carrots, sugar snaps, snow peas, and a lively red spring lettuce mix. French filet beans, edamame, bolita beans, black-eyed peas, red raspberries, and blue potatoes need to go in the ground later. Signs of life in the vegetable garden: yellow raspberries, asparagus, chard, rhubarb, strawberry, and the garlic growing like gangbusters. Around June 15, I'll be harvesting inchelium, early red, ajo rojo, and elephant varieties. Herbs are poking through and greening up: mint (grown in a pot in the ground), thyme, oregano, and I don't think the parsley ever stopped growing all winter. It's now lush and gorgeous.
Indoors - my tiny little orchid that I bought on a whim last year is actually in bloom! These pretty flowers have been open for probably a month. It's shaken my orchid-killer rep and moves me to lovingly care for the orchids I got for free at the National Museum of Natural History's Orchid Show (still running if you're near the DC area).
By the vents and on the heating pads are seeds started last night. Come summer, I will be harvesting: tomatillo, charentais melon, tomatoes (hillbilly, Cherokee purple, isis candy cherry), peppers (ancho, cayenne, jalapeno, habanero), watermelon, and basil.
And my favorite early spring sight - hellebores. How did you spend YOUR first day of mud pie season?
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Welcome back, Wendy!
ReplyDeleteLove your mini phal. I have one that started flowering in January and is still in full bloom.
This is proof that you are definitely not an orchid killer!
That seem like a lot of fun for you and your little girl. Those snow drops finally look right to me. They are always upside down else where. :) Btw, mud pie season is whole year round for us. I'm in the midst of removing mud and lawn. Replacing with concrete stones that look more like snow. :)
ReplyDeleteMudpies! Wow, that brings back memories. I used to do that when I was a kid! Your orchid looks awesome, and glad to see that your back to blogging again!
ReplyDeleteI made my very own mud pies on the patio--and our other activities kept me too busy to clean it up!!! Your activities have me jealous that I only accomplished a fraction of you, minus the mudpies! Some year soon once we are settled I can buy and plant to my hearts content!
ReplyDeleteWendy, welcome back to blogging! Good to see your blog moving again. So this is the first day of spring. The only visible signs of spring for me is during the Chinese New Year season ;->
ReplyDeleteHi Wendy - nice to see you back! I planted potatoes yesterday, and my salad table is sprouting (and let's not even talk about the indoor seed starting). Spring is sprung!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back Wendy! Hope you've been well. Looks like a fun mudpie kinda day!!
ReplyDeleteGlad to see your post!
ReplyDeleteYour daughter is having full fun i guess!
Many new seedling will be emerging soon for you to take care off!
Wendy Welcome Back! Looks like your plan for warm veggies are looking good.
ReplyDeleteWendy: Glad to see you are back! Wow, those are LOTS of veggie seeds you have sown! I wish I can have enough land to try more veggie growing. I only tried some in the containers. Happy Spring! Your daughter seems had lots of fun to make the muddy pie!
ReplyDeleteWendy, you're back! That makes me happy. :-) Mud pied certainly do make for happy little girls, don't they? Too cute!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous orchids, I've never tried growing one, they see to high maintenance for me. I'm glad yours is rewarding you for keeping it alive!
We're all so glad to have you back! I thought to check because my seeds arrived today! Thank you! Thank you! The fun begins!
ReplyDeleteHi Wendy~~ Well we're a little past the mud-pie stage. Plenty of mud, mind you but no pie makers. :) I love your floating hellebores. Congrats on your orchid. Your thumb is definitely GREEN.
ReplyDeleteHooray, Wendy is back. See you around the blogosphere. Happy spring!
ReplyDeleteKathy