It’s spring! It’s WET spring. May has been a rollercoaster of cool temps and thunderstorms and heat waves. Today is June 1, and it has rained enough that we haven’t needed to water our little seedlings to get them sprouting. The plants we started indoors have had an easy time transitioning with the cool temps and cloud cover. Soon they are really going to want some sun though! Asparagus 2020 The asparagus beds are 3 and 4, and we’re trying to keep up with picking them so they keep producing. There is definitely a difference between freshly picked asparagus and…
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When we first carved out a garden from the surrounding trees, we knew we couldn’t grow a sun-loving shrub like the blueberry. Blueberries needed a little more warmth and light than we could provide, so we researched cold-hardy berries like the honeyberry, seaberry, and lignonberry, and planted a 30 ft row of raspberries and a bed of strawberries. After a summer of watching the sun climb over the garden for at least 8 hours, we changed our minds. That didn’t take long. In fall we snapped up three plants on sale from a local nursery, then somehow ended up with…