This past week has been a soggy one in our garden and there is no sign of letting up either. In fact, I think we actually hit a record for rainfall around here in Western Washington for the month of March.
Everything is drenched! 
But the vegetables are still growing. Slowly.
Our poppies and rhubarb plants are doing great, but the artichokes I transplanted last fall have still not popped up yet. I guess it means I’ll have to plant another round of artichoke seeds and this time not move the plants. I knew I was taking my chances moving them but I was still hopping for the best. Oh well, lesson learned. 
Everything in and around the greenhouse is growing like mad.
Don’t you think it looks like I’ve got a mini lettuce factory growing inside? {And yes, that is kale growing in the pots just outside the greenhouse.} 😉
If you are looking for a perennial flower that will spread like crazy and has some fantastic blooms, you should plant some Shasta Daisy Seeds. When we moved here 8 years ago we dug up a small section of a shasta daisy plant from our old house and planted it in our backyard. Since then every summer the plant spills seeds like gangbusters and now I’ve got shasta daisy flowers growing all over my backyard. I LOVE it!
And last but not least, a photo of our raspberry patch. It’s coming alive!! Take a look at all those green leaves. I’m hoping for a bumper crop this year. 🙂
How about you? What’s happening in your garden these days?
Mavis wants to know.
This years garden is being sponsored by the folks at Botanical Interests Seed Company. You can check out their website HERE, order their new 2014 Garden Seed Catalog HERE.
sue thomson says
i planted carrots and beets a few weeks ago but nothing is happening. have a couple of beds ready. cabbage was planted also but looks like it’s going to be a replant too. finished building compost bend. using the one bend design off your site.rain,rain and more rain here in southern Idaho too.try to work in yard as much as i can whenever the rain lets up and sun shines just a little.just putting in an hour here and there gets my that far ahead.
Patty P says
Unfortunately we woke up to Old Man Winter….again. Yesterday was a nice day, then it started raining (and raining and raining) and then it turned to slushy snow. I did wander thru my garden the other day, but sunk in about up to my knees, so I guess its not going to be ready for a while. I did start tomatoes inside (and have to get a move on starting everything else in this next week or two). I tried to grow lettuce hydroponically (I followed directions on a post I found a while ago), but my basement must be too cold, because it started , got about 2 inches high, and stopped…I’m going to try again when I have room upstairs to do my setup! I did go out in the wind/ice/snow today while my 5 year old was “playing” and cut back my grapevines….and I cleaned up under the majority of my apple trees from the bumper crop we had last fall that I couldn’t keep up with (and had given practically everyone I know and everyone I don’t know apples…)…so the apples, peaches, pears, plums, and hazelnuts are ready to go! Can’t wait till everything greens up and I can get outside without freezing!
Francisca says
Mavis you mentioned you have deer. How do you keep them from eating everything in your garden beds? We are having the backyard fenced so the dogs can have access to the whole yard (they have a small fenced area right now) and I am hoping that they will scare off some of the deer. We have a family that come everyday to visit and last year I feed them more than I was able to harvest. I love to see them but grrr…..
Karin says
Looking nice , can’t wait fir spring to come in out neck of the woods, Interior of BC Canada .
Cecily says
Planted beets, carrots and kale and transplanted tomatoes and peppers into larger pots. Also built a new house for the ducks and doing repairs on the chicken coop, run and broody house. The days are getting longer and so is my to do list!
Beverly says
Let’s see – planted garden peas, potatoes and lettuce but nothing showing up yet. The strawberry patch is greening up and some flowers are already opening. If we don’t get a late freeze, I will have strawberries by May. The weeds are atrocious all over the place. I too have problems with deer, just wish they liked the weeds. They are already walking through the garden looking for any tasty little green things. Other than a 6 foot fence what does anyone do to keep the deer away. I live in a small town so they are protected. Today is a beautiful sunny day and I’m going to mow weeds! I’m in the Piedmont area of North Carolina by the way.
Mindy says
Two kinds of peas up in the actual garden and strawberry beds are looking green and good. Broccoli, red cabbage and pansy starts broke through the soil in the greenhouse and lettuce and spinich in there as well in pots. Looking forward to the rain letting up as we are also in the PNW…
tc says
I am in the central coast of CA, I am harvesting artichokes right now (after the gophers got them) we re did our raised beds, put double wire underneath and bought it outside the beds too, Now they are doing fabulously. My cabbage has done well and the chickens get most of it. Harvesting early blueberries right now, this is the first year they have done really well, I was thinking about giving up if they didn’t, they must have heard me. celery, beets, onions, chard all ready to harvest, so got to plant more. We re did the soil in our beds and I topped each one of with 3 inches of compost that our chickens add to greatly and I dug some into the soil. We are in a drought right now though it looks like our year will end up with perhaps 7″ total rainfall. We are desparate for more though so please send some our way. I finally think I found a way to keep the deer out of the rose garden by putting bird netting around and between all the trellises and hanging the solar powered flashing lights on the trellises in case the want to jump the metal trellis fence (it is about 6ft high). I hope for the first year that my rose garden really flourishes, what with gophers and deer getting most of them before. Happy gardening.