spring seeds started

After mixing in about 2 yards of compost, we finally get some spring seeds started.
Nantes carrots
Snap peas
Cilantro
Bibb Lettuce
Rainbow Chard
Spinach
went in the ground today. I've laid newspaper down on top of the seeds to keep the hungry birds at bay. I swear there was an entire flock of starlings sitting in the hedgerow waiting for me to finish planting so they could swoop in and eat them up.
I also separated and replanted strawberries, doubled the size of the raspberry bed and thinned out the existing canes to start the new area.

Ah, New England

It wouldn't be spring in New England without a little snow to remind us who the boss is. Spent yesterday clearing out the garden, pulling the weeds which grow all winter long under the snow. We're getting 3 yds. of compost delivered Thursday. With any luck, I'll have the peas and lettuce in the ground next weekend. Getting a later start this year, since we had to wait for all the snow to melt away.
I hope I can remember this feeling of optimism when I'm confronting chipmunks, fungus and leaf spot in August!

Towering snap peas

The snap peas have been a winner again this year. They came up quickly and easily and are now 5 feet tall and starting to produce the first sweet snap peas.

Soil fungus

Some of sort of fungus has attacked. It's growing on the surface like eggs, with tindrilly, moldy roots growing 1 inch down. I suspect it's from mixing in the mulch when I turned the soil.

I dug up patches of it all over the garden. But it might take something more.

Onions, carrots, radish early June

Everything is coming up well since the fence went up. The second round of lettuce is coming in thick. The carrots are growing tall. And the onions are starting to flower. I thinned the radishes and carrots tonight.

Suck it rabbits!

The (hopefully) rabbit-proof fence. Ok, so they can likely jump more than 3 feet high. Hmm, the interwebs tells me that rabbits can jump "36 inches or higher...". I'm willing to gamble that there is enough easy to reach food that rabbits will be detered by the fence. Besides, even if it isn't entirely effective against rabbits, it can surely keep out the litterbox cats and baby D.

Growing Persian cucumbers

Cucumber seedlings emerged after just 1 week. I have started long Persians from seed as well as a pickling cucumber. I just can't help shunning the durable marketmore in favor of more interesting flavors. If last year is any prediction, I will go crawling back to the garden center for some marketmore starts to supplement my failing fancy cucumbers