A serious amount of my time has been spent in the garden recently. We don't use any weed killer (or any chemicals, for that matter) in the yard & garden, so there are *always* weeds to pull. I'll never be able to keep up with them, but I make an attempt pretty much daily.
There is a pay off for all of this work. Despite the fact that it is only May, we've already eaten several salads from the garden. I just threw an old packet of seeds into an old flower box with some fresh potting soil and it went crazy! The seeds were at least two years old, so I wasn't even sure they would germinate -- ha!
Today I picked the first few ripe strawberries -- the first of many. There are too many green and pink berries to count, and I think I may even have enough to make jam next week.
So, that's were I've been.
Your strawberries and peonies are head of ours! But we're going to have a fair number of berries from our few little plants, too, assuming the squirrels don't get them first.
Our big white peony plant is taller than Zosia this year. I can't wait to see it in bloom. Might have to think about trying some lettuce on the back deck.
Posted by: Theresa | Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 05:40 PM
Your peonies are just beautiful. Ours (in Springfield) have been pretty much done for about a week now. They never last long enough.
The weeds are to keep up with -- almost as bad as the rabbits. LOL.
Posted by: Marie | Friday, May 18, 2012 at 12:03 AM
I had some of the berries on my cereal this morning - a pleasant sign that summer is back. I'll get the netting put over the berry patch this weekend before the squirrels go on a rampage.
I always love seeing the peonies every year. We had a big peony bush in our backyard in Cary when I was growing up, which was an offshoot from a peony from my grandmother's yard in Lombard. I wish I could have carried on the tradition, but the Cary peony was taken out years ago when my parents built the new porch.
Posted by: Pete | Friday, May 18, 2012 at 10:08 AM