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It’s been a cold wet spring. The garden is doing okay, but lagging a bit from last year I think.<\/p>\n

Vegetable garden<\/h3>\n
Garlic outside fence and flower row inside fence with daisies and allium, plus lots of seeds and dahlias not visible yet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Horseradish about to flower, twelve winter squash plants in three sisters row, comfrey at end of row<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Broccoli (de cicco and aspa-broc) and cabbage, under row cover for flea beetle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Kale, fava beans mulched in shredded leaves, and last year\u2019s green onions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Broccoli rabe, beets and turnips (too tiny to see), last year\u2019s parsnips allowed to go to seed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s more growing in the vegetable garden but it’s too small to be very photogenic: carrots, parsnips, cabbage, summer squash, cucumber, peas, and asparagus.<\/p>\n

Fruit yard<\/h3>\n
Fruit yard innovation – fence posts along raised beds allowing for rotation of chicken run fencing so they can have fresh greens to scratch up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Gooseberry rescued from weeds in its own raised bed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Bumblebee pollinating blueberry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Raspberry plants in second year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Strawberry plants in second year and an artichoke from Lesley S.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Grapevines just beginning to leaf out, radically pruned last fall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Front Yard<\/h3>\n
Reinforced bird feeder with goldfinch. Probably knocked over by bear last night, which is the same day of last year\u2019s bear visitation!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Front garden – finally trimmed all dead stalks so it looks pretty neat at this point. Chives, tansy, oregano, artemisia, etc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Hardy Kiwi vine leafing out and hummingbirds are here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Herb garden with artichoke. Not much growth yet. One rosemary survived last winter indoors and I bought a new one from Chuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hoophouse<\/h3>\n
Raised beds in hoophouse. Been eating these greens for awhile. Claytonia, mache, mixed greens, spinach, radish. Will be replaced with peppers and eggplants in the summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Thirty-nine tomato seedlings waiting for planting! Plus fennel, cukes, more cabbage, tomatillos, more winter squash, corn, pole beans and dye flowers.<\/p>\n

Community Garden<\/h3>\n

No pictures, but lots of onion family planted there.<\/p>\n