Spring sprung sproing!

The days are getting longer, and the plants are responding with rapid growth! Zoom!



The dew covered carrot seedlings. Radishes are coming along, some even starting to bulge slightly.


A forest of Red Russian Kale.

the season is upon us.

The plants are growing. Tiny leaves on the trees! Spring storms and winds that make your bike scoot sideways. We have workdays in the garden this week, in between wildly busy and delicious Edible Alchemy pick-ups.

I've been spinning fire again, as the cold does not make my hands numb when I hold my fans!
We're in the toddler stages of creating a performance troupe, something that I've been itching to do for years, but have never found the right time, place, or people. But now!

fire photos: credit to Lera Gershevich, 2010

Over wintered greens

Dietrich and I went out to check on the plants in their hoop houses today, half expecting everything to be dead. And, there's life! According to our friends:

"Yay! Life reigns!"
"babies babies everywhere"
"SPRING!"


The purple kale, shown above, was the hardiest over-winterer. It still is chugging along, looking awesomely tasty. The frosts brought out the deep purple even more in the leaves.



Spinach also looked great, showing more growth even. Spinach is super hardy, growing (slowly) in very cold conditions. You can see our yellow onions sprouting behind them.

Here, our hard-neck garlic is sending up shoots. They're all super happy and ready to get photosynthesizing after the dormancy of bulb life.

We also planted our lettuce bed, some carrots (yellowstone and 2 nantes varieties), radishes (pink and purple!), and a row of arugula. Let the spring spring soon.

Garden workdays to be announced later! I can't wait to get dirty.

office nasturtiums. leggy and round!

Fire Spinning

Crop Plans

Going through our seed collections. Finally, a large garden to plant them all in! We will have an abundance of seeds of tomatoes, cucumbers, fennel, corn, eggplant, basil, parsley, watercress, dill, oregano, catnip, thyme, echinacea, chiles, sweet peppers, sage, carrots, beans, peas, broccoli, kale, and amaranth. As long as the number of seeds will reflect how well they will grow on the roof :)

Still looking for a choice few others, like red and golden beets, various lettuces, and spinach. Chives, cilantro, ceremonial tobacco, yarrow, and mugwort are less of a priority, but would be great! So, Ill keep planning in the meantime- thinking of sweet green growing things and the scent of wet earth.

ahhh.

Winter = warm hole-ing up with cats.

It's cold. Feet of snow cover the ground. It is 11 degrees today. All I want to do is hole up with my cats and clean and sew and cook hearty soups and stews. (Which is what I do on my days off, consequently.)