April 30, 2025

Garden Notes: April 2025

 Rainfall

  • 1st: 0.01"
  • 2nd: 0.01"
  • 6th: 0.99"
  • 7th: 2.22"
  • 10th: 0.4"
  • 11th: 0.02"
  • 22nd: 0.04"
  • 23rd: 0,54"
  • 24th: 0.17"
  • 25th: 0.41"
  • 26th: 0.58"
  • Total: 5.39 inches
 Temperature
  • range of nighttime lows: 34 to 66°F (1 to 19°C)
  • range of daytime highs: 61 to 85°F (16 to 29.5°C)

Last frost: 13th 

Weather Notes: We've had a few toasty days but mostly the weather has been lovely.

Planted

  • okra
  • Swiss chard
  • corn
  • potatoes
  • transplants
    • tomatoes
    • cucumbers
Harvested
  • asparagus
  • lettuce
  • wild lettuce
  • chickweed
  • chicory greens
  • kale
  • collards
  • broccoli bits
  • lambs quarter
  • oregano
  • snow peas

Pictures

Transplanting my greenhouse tomato starts

The newly transplanted tomatoes covered with scraps from
the shade cloth we used to cover the greenhouse last summer.

Snow pea flowers

Snow peas with edible pods

Red raspberry patch

Polyculture bed: the squash and lambs quarter are volunteers. Also
growing are things I planted: lettuce, beets carrots, and daikons. 

A hopeful strawberry. Usually critters get them as they ripen.

It's been a busy month in the garden and I'm glad for it. So, how about your garden? How's it coming along?

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