From Garden To Ready-To-Eat

Picked and cleaned Ready to cook

Last fall, I set up some experimental “greenhouses” to see if I could grow some greens over a cold Idaho winter. I had bought some portable planters last summer and rigged them up with hoops to support some heavy semi-clear plastic covers. The covers were held in place with carpenter’s clamps. I picked up 3…

The new greenhouse still isn’t up yet; the ground needs to be prepped and there’s other work to do in the meantime. The remnants of the winter garden are still doing well … … until some outside force comes along and rips those poor plants out of their comfortable resting place, scrapes their skins off,…

Work on the garden continues – it’s that time of year … but progress at this point is not something worth a photograph. Preparations are being made for putting the hoop greenhouse up … but it’s not time yet. Meanwhile, these tulips had escaped their bed and were sacrificed for placement in the kitchen.

The tulips have just begun to come out. The yellow ones come out first … and this is the first bloom. Deer love the flowers – these are behind a fence. The grape hyacinths are coming out – if indeed these are grape hyacinths. They were not planted; the act as wildflowers … but here…

… it just feels nothing happens except more work. Still not ready to assemble the greenhouse; still need tractor work. Still need a tractor.