In the Garden, April First

The first week of April was very much Spring like. T-shirt weather, lots of sunshine. I cannot help but garden.

 

Half a bed of garlic, half a bed of WallaWalla sweet onions. With some kale/chard for chickens at the end.

 

Broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi. They're doing great! 

  Lettuce and carrots, both from starts.

 Going to have loads of rhubarb.

I've discovered that the Scrub Jays really like eating the baby pea plants. So we've protected them.

Getting the tomato patch ready for tomatoes.
Exciting.
(Only six weeks to go. . . )

In the Greenhouse, April First

Just an update: what's going on in the greenhouse.

Tomatoes, Last Year & This Year

Well, this was my goal this winter. 2021 tomatoes on the vine before 2020 tomatoes were done. 

These are the last (so far) blossoms on the 2020 tomato plant in the greenhouse. There are maybe a dozen flowers across the plant. 

This is a yellow cherry tomato.

And these are the very first blossoms on the first tomato plant of 2021. 

In all fairness, I don't know what kind of tomato this is; it's a weed that sprouted among the earliest hot peppers from very early this year. 

 

(Well, it might be a Brandywine.)