I photograph this same clump of daffodils every year as they are my phenology plants in the garden. This year, they bloomed a week later than last year. The daffodils are more accurate than my memory of whether the spring will be “early” or “late.”
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
The purple sprouting broccoli is benefitting from the past few sunny days. We will start harvesting in the next week or so. Then, we will have broccoli for about six weeks.
Overwintered Cauliflower
In the next six weeks, we will also be able to harvest the overwintered cauliflower. The battered and bruised plants are slowly developing. The inner leaves are wrapped tightly around the baby cauliflower buds to protect them from weather damage.
Chives!
A sure sign of spring is chives! We forget about them, and then one day, we walk by and are surprised. We have plenty, so we will start harvesting them now that we are on the brink of spring and have harvestable chives!
Violas
Each week, we are harvesting more violas. They flourish in the early spring sunshine.
French & Red-Vein Sorrel
The freeze set back the French and red-vein sorrel but did not kill them. Both sorrels are looking great and can be harvested.
Pepper Seeding
Another sign of spring is the seeding of all the peppers! I will attempt to restrain myself at transplanting time by remembering the mountains of peppers we harvested last September!
Sunchokes
While it is nice to focus on the future, let us remember the present. We still have the majority of the sunchokes to harvest. Some nice-sized tubers are lurking underground, waiting to shine in whatever way they are cooked.
If you need a change of scenery, come to the garden to see exactly what else we have growing.
-Anna
