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This is the point in our gardening when we begin the transition from indoor to outdoor with the seedlings. There are still 3 weeks until our last frost-day so the garden itself is still fairly empty, but our seedlings are enjoying hardening-off and catching breezes during the day.
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The tomatoes will be moved to larger pots for the second time this week, and the peppers are finally starting to look promising. Our peas are up and about 6" tall, and the few herbs that we have are looking great.
This week, we will be planting our frost-hardy carrots and Tom Thumb lettuce. Our beans, cucumbers, purslane, spinach, and melons will be
waiting until Memorial Day.
The beautiful, insanely fragrant stars of our garden right now are the
lemon trees. Lem dropped all his leaves in shipping and has been making
his comeback all winter long. There are no blooms yet, but he looks so
much healthier than he did 8 months ago! Ada, on the other hand, has been flowering prolifically for 3 weeks now. She is perfuming the entire
dining room, and just now when I was taking photographs there was a fat bumblebee loitering sleepily as he pollinated her for me. I tried to
catch him, but apparently, he's camera-shy.
There is plenty to do in the garden already; daily bringing the
seedlings in and out, watering, pinching, feeding the worms... What we
love most however is the fact that it never takes more than 20 minutes
to "putter" everything into perfect order in our tiny oasis. Would you
like to take a peek?
