We did have frost this morning, but the rest of the day was perfect for being in the garden. It's sunny, but not too hot. Ed's lettuce that got zapped by hard frost before is making a comeback. Even the plants that I cut back hard are making a comeback. The plants are making new little leaves.
Ed's tomato plants are big enough to spend the nice part of the day outside. Soon they can be moved to bigger pots.
Ed spent the day working on a project he had hoped to finish last fall. Today he moved the clove currants. Tomorrow I think he will have the bed finished! That will be a great feeling. Actually every thing that we can get done makes such a big improvement a wonderful feeling of accomplishment comes with the effort!
Ed's bloodroot not only came back this year, but it multiplied over the winter. We have to keep an eye on it. The plants flower and go to seed very quickly. Ed's watering after the plants went dormant paid off.
The frost didn't make much of an impression on my squirrel corn and in spite of its name it didn't get eaten either. The plant looks great!
We have some gorgeous blue Siberian squill growing in a place where we did not know we had planted it. It will take some patience to separate it from the weeds but who could not love those gorgeous blue flowers?
I saved the best surprise for last. I had circle onions also known as curly chives for years. Somehow in the last couple of years we lost them. I was sure they were gone for good, but today I walked by this plant and stopped dead in my tracks. There way down at the end of one of the garden beds, growing in the stone path was a curly chive plant. How it could be growing there so far away from where they had been planted before is a mystery to me, but I am thrilled to have noticed it. Imagine if it had been pulled as a weed by mistake. It will be moved to a nice spot and well marked. Now that we have been reunited, I don't want to lose them again. Maybe if I'm lucky they will send up a nice purple flower for me come July.
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