After an hour or two of work, a contented gardener enjoys a few moments of sunshine overlooking the prepared beds. Four cold frames are helping the soil to stay warm over the next few weeks when the temperature is still cool at night. We want to start planting cool weather lettuce and other greens next week, if conditions are good to get started.
At the south end, we found some tulips starting in a place where there were none last spring. They seem to move around and reproduce, and they surprise us each season with new colors, too. We also moved the blueberry bushes to a place beneath the evergreen with the hope that they will perform better in soil made acidic by the fallen needles.
Our last important gardening spot is the herb garden where the only returning herb so far is the chive plant. Our first harvest of the season of chives on April 12 went into a lunchtime salad. It was a very good beginning to spring. Now we just need some rain to get the resting growing.
