Garden Fever

It's not been the greatest Spring, even here in the Pacific NW.  But I gather we are the lucky ones, considering reports from elsewhere.  I'm talking fine details of temperature, not wind-speeds over 100mph.

We have had a couple 60F+ days.  But we have also had night frosts in the outlying areas as recently as last week, I hear.  Mercifully not in our neighborhood, small consolation.  I felt obliged to sequester basil, pepper, and tomato starts we picked up at school plant sale in our "potting shed" beneath the deck.  This is at least enclosed, and presumably far more congenial for sensitive starts than the out-of-doors.

But we as always over-did it at plant sale, racking up several weekends of work neither of us really need, in my case in particular conflicting with breaking into and starting those seed-packets I just bought!  Ah well.  Prior work on that front involved getting four tee-pees worth of peas going, and chard, lettuce, mesclun, and sweet peas going in pots.

With tremendous weeding assistance from my partner, I planted out seedlings of lettuce, beets, Swiss chard, broccoli, and onions.  Lots more to do, but that was a great start.

And, a great mercy, after upper-back heroics with the pole-pruner yesterday, I will do no more on the apples this Spring.  Asian pear, while lower parts have been attended to, may need some more work on the superstructure, if only to keep her within reach.  There are still a lot of those 3+-foot watersprouts way up high.