Happy Sunday everyone, how is the weather where you are? This past week has been spectacular up here in the Pacific Northwest and as a result our backyard garden is really starting to take off.
The potatoes we planted a few weeks ago are starting to pop through the soil {second garden box from the front on the left} and before too long it will be time to set tomato plants outside {my favorite thing to grow}.
The pallet garden is coming along nicely. Later this week I hope to transplant a few more lettuce starts to our pallet garden. {I’ll be sure and take some close up photos when I do}.
Check out our espalier pear tree we having growing alongside the house.
Aren’t the blooms gorgeous? I wonder if we’ll get pears this year? This particular tree has 6 different varieties grafted to it, how cool is that? 
The garlic is really beginning to fill out the boxes.
I think I’ll turn the lasagna garden into a sunflower and pumpkin patch. Now all I need to do is wait another 6 weeks to plant the seeds.
Poppies and rhubarb. 
Two of my rhubarb plants have giant flowers coming out of the center. I think this happened last year as well so I’m not too worried. Once the rhubarb stalks get a little bigger I’m going to pick a few and make a batch of Vanilla Rhubarb Jam.
The greenhouse is still pumping out gourmet lettuce leaves by the bowlful. 
Daffodils and raspberries. You probably can’t see it {unless you squint real hard} but the first round of tulips are beginning to pop up. The daffodils are dying a slow death and should be done blooming by next week, but the tiny grape hyacinth are still hanging in there.
And last but not least, the backyard is bursting with tiny vinca {periwinkle} flowers. These bloom twice a year, in the spring and fall, and are great plant for growing on a hillside.
Ahh Spring, I love you.
~Mavis
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.
Gwen in L.A. says
May I urge you to cut out the Rhubarb blossoms? No energy spent towards making seeds.
Too warm here to grow Rhubarb 🙁 Sad news for me.
Hopefully you will be posting the amounts of food gathered from your garden, with a 2014 total? Guess I’m a gardening geek, I’m going to take note of ours this year 🙂
Cathy lynch says
Yup, the rhubarb is making seeds
you
Don’t need . Cut them back. Spend energy on
On making more stocks to make jam.
Karen at A Glimpse Into My Reveries says
I do as Gwen says and always remove the rhubarb blossoms. All energy into a healthy crown and stalks! Yum!
Becky says
When are you planning on planting your tomatoes outside? We just moved back to Seattle, and I am trying to figure out how long to wait.
Mindy says
I want to try an espalier really bad! I love the look and it seems like a great way to get some fruit in a smaller space. I am wondering if a grafted variety like this is also a self polinater or would I need two?