Signs of life April 28, 2009

Even with the cold that we’ve had lately there are signs of life in the garden!  W00T!  The arugula is sprouting.  The lettuce and spinach is looking good.  Some of them got a little sunburn when it was really warm one day but they’re ok.  The lemon balm got a bit of that burn too but looks like its recovering nicely.  We have the first leaves of the potatoes popping up and the peas are starting to come out of hiding. 

We also planted out rainbow chard, more mustard and kale and some lettuce.  Sunday we stopped by Moana nursery to meander.  I know I shouldn’t do that but it’s so prettful there.  Anyway we ended up with a peppermint and catnip seeds.  Planted the mint in a pot for now.  I do have one bed where it cant escape that I may put it.  And Matt wanted to take over the catnip so he planted those in a window box and some in the escape proof bed.  The cats are going to love it.  The trick will be keeping the neighborhood cats from killing it

I planted some garlic that had sprouted in the fridge and it’s growing beautifully.  I have to say that green garlic (leaves) have to be one of the most under used and under talked about ingredients ever.  They are so good!  Very garlicky but with a sweet green bright kind of taste.  I don’t think I’m describing it very well but I recommend that everyone try planting some garlic and using the greens.  It’s also nice because you can plant them in spring (if like me you forgot last fall;)

Matt chatted with one of our neighbours last night while he was watering.  They live a couple houses down from us and have just put in a chicken coop.  They were supper impressed by the green garlic and want to do trades for produce once we get things growing.  Fresh veggies for fresh eggs.  Oh Yah!