Mother's Day, Time to Plant!

It's Mother's day and here in the north east it's the traditional time to start planting.

Here are 3 "volunteer" potato plants, & some kale that just got
transplanted.  In the 3 pots are apple seedlings
that were started a year ago, or so.

The strawberry plants are looking very happy this year.

In the low tunnel the lettuce has come up.

the orange tree has it's sunblock on!

Snap peas are doing pretty well.

I dumped a bunch of squash seeds on a windy day and they ALL seem
to have sprouted.

Transplanted squash volunteers.

The terraces.

The main plot got expanded a small bit this year
and some new fence.

Apples to be, we hope. (winesap)

Peaches to be, we hope.

a row of pinto beans seedlings and the grape.

cherries to be, we hope.

pretty little flowers.

Happy Dog.

Silly rabbit.

In order to make room for this years crops we had to clear out what was still in the ground from the winter.  We still had a few carrots in the low tunnel.  Carrot soup, slaw, cake, salad....

Carrots! Planted last fall.

You can see how rocky our soil is by the funny shapes of these carrots.  We also did not thin them the way some people might so many were competing for space and nutrients in a small space.
I prefer the taste of the orange carrots to the white ones, slightly, and they all probably would taste sweeter if we'd picked them sooner.