Garden Updates 4.3.19

Last weekend I stopped into Tractor Supply to pick up a few things I wanted to add to my gardens this year. It must have been the first week of all the new plants arriving because everything looked amazing and the shelves were full! And let me just say thank God they didn’t have any baby ducks available, only baby chicks.

And lucky for me, my incubator is full of eggs right now – due to hatch April 10th. Therefore,  ZERO temptation to buy any adorable little-fuzzy-poopy things that day…

I’ve decided my asparagus patch is too small to keep me satisfied, so I picked up some Mary Washington and Purple Passion varieties.  I already have the Mary Washington growing in the current patch, but I thought the Purple Passion might be good to try. It’s going to drive me nuts waiting for it to produce…

Okay, FIRST let me warn you, and then apologize for the appearance of this next plant (but one of my favorites!).  Honestly, there was just NO way of displaying this particular root vegetable (Armoracia Rusticana) in a way that could possibly make it look any less filthy, salacious, immoral or just plain smutty.  Seriously. It made me blush... View it at your own discretion.

So, um, yeah….. Horseradish. Let’s move on, shall we? How about Strawberries!!! The Farm Boy wanted to give strawberries a try. I couldn’t say no to that.

Next up is a “Fall Gold” raspberry bush.  I have red raspberries already, but again I thought this would add something interesting to the mix. I’m fantasizing sitting on my porch swing on a warm balmy evening, sipping on a glass of chilled Prosseco with a few frozen raspberries chill’n it.

And some white Grapes.  How I love grapes. Mostly only when they’re fermented…But I have a red grape vine that is two years old now, a Concord, and I thought it’d be nice to have a white grape as well. Plus the other grapevine looked all lonely.

I bought another Chicago Hardy fig tree. Why? Well, I do already have one, but this particular fig tree I’m going to try growing in a container so that it can be moved into the mudroom during the winter. Every year my outside fig tree gets tons of figs, but only a few ripen before the onset of heavy frost / freezing winter.  So I get about five ripe figs and the rest freeze like ornaments on a leafless tree.  My thought is, if I bring the tree indoors before the shitty weather hits, then maybe the figs will continue to ripen and I’ll have something to brag about. We’ll see…

And last, Sunflowers. Loads and loads of Sunflowers – even more than I have pictured here.  I’m planting lots of them for the secret project I have coming up in April that I hinted at in this post.

Now it’s time to sit and wait patiently for some good weather for planting. What are YOU growing this year? ~A

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