Vegetable Garden update – 3.24.12

I can’t complain that we are about two weeks ahead of schedule with our vegetable garden. Here is a glimpse at what we have going on.

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Egyptian Onion

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Hardneck Garlic

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Spinach

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Sweet Pea

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Alpine Strawberry

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Hops shoots beginning to sprout

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Seed trays out on the warm patio

Spring Flowers

I love when the vegetable garden is in its height of production, but there’s something admirable about the simplicity of watching the first plants awake in the beginning of spring. Here’s a quick glimpse at what is popping up in our perennial gardens.

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Daffodil

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Hyacinth

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Daffodil ‘Rip van Winkle’

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Peony

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Sedum ‘autumn joy’

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Tree Peony

We’re ahead of schedule from last year, but flowers can never come too early in my book.