It’s already so warm that everything’s starting to bolt — my spinach leaves are getting unworthy of being eaten raw, I’m seeing the little broccoli-looking florets on some of my greens (like mizuna), and the lettuce is looking similarly bothered by this early, fast spring.
Y’all come by and pick a bag (or ten) of greens — they’re getting out of hand!
Mizuna is now taller than my 3 year old
Garlic coming up
All the seeds and sets I planted back on March 7th have come up in full force. We’ve had ample rain, warmth and sun to coax everything up.
Beets and snow peas are great seeds for kids to help with the planting -- they are big and easy to handle
Snow peas
Garlic and radishes
Yum, shallots
Radishes
And no frosts or freezes to kill everything back — yet. I just keep waiting for a weather report calling for a late-season blizzard or something (wasn’t Asheville’s Great Blizzard of ’96 at the end of March??)
If that does happen, I can cover 4 of my raised beds, but there is so much in the yard that we’d need to buy truckloads of plastic sheeting to cover all the trees and shrubs that are already flowering.
So while this unseasonably warm weather is unsettling (I keep thinking of flooded islands, melting ice caps) now I’m kind of hoping it stays this way — at least for my garden’s sake!
Raspberry canes
Blueberry blossoms
Jonafree apple blossom
Honeycrisp apple blossom
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