Independence Days Update: Say it Ain’t Snow!
Sharon April 27th, 2010
We’re expecting 3 inches of snow tonight. This does not please me. It does, however, make me feel a little less guilty about the things I haven’t gotten into the ground yet 
. We had guests, then I had a cold, then it was raining, and I’m going to be away this weekends, so things are slower than I’d like them to be. But hey, if it snows, I’ll be vindicated! Annoyed, cranky, cold, but vindicated.
At least it is precipitating - we have had two weeks of bone dry weather, and the soil was really too dry to plant outside the reaches of our hose - given our climate here, most of my garden is unreachable by any water other than rain, and we’ve never had a problem. But it does mean occasionally waiting out a dry spell with delicate transplants. But it is pouring now, at least.
It has been a quiet week here, with guests galore (my sister and her family, Stoneleigh) and not nearly as much work as I’d like. The new raised beds are coming along slowly, and so is everything else.
Asparagus and rhubarb are coming in - my first asparagus is just about tall enough to harvest, and down the hill in the valley, they’ve really got it in. Love, love, love asparagus and rhubarb!
Plant something: lettuce, chard, beets, zinnias, clover, onions, rhubarb, pansies, hollyhocks, carrots, kale, marshmallow
Harvest something: Nettle, raspberry leaves, dandelions, sorrel, chives, rhusbarb, asparagus, eggs, milk.
Preserve something - dried some raspberry leaves
Waste Not: Dandelions galore going for rabbit food, the usual composting and feeding of things to other things.
Want Not: Ordered bulk pasta when I suddenly discovered I had only orzo and lasagna noodles in the house, but nothing in that critical medium size .
Eat the food: Asparagus wraps (fresh rice paper wraps with asparagus and fresh herbs with dipping sauce), rhubarb compote, stir friend asparagus and tofu . Yum!
Build community food systems: Really cool new project in the workings, more on this soon!
How about you?
Sharon