it's four fifths of the way through april and the temperature has dropped off from the upper seventies ( fahrenheit ) into the upper sixties which hasn't put much of a damper on things around the yard...
thirty-seven ramps have made an appearance under the critter net on the north side of the house...something ( one? ) was making off with them last season so i covered them to see what would transpire...
the mooseberry bush ( high bush cranberry for those of you who grew up berift of rocky and bullwinkle ) is leafing out nicely and visiting with his daffodil neighbors...
the relentless colonizers known as jerusalem artichokes have popped up...i found them on april twelfth last year so either they or i am running later than last season although in the past they did not appear until early may so it may still be called an early appearnace...
the asparagus is doing well ( remind me to take a jaunt out to campus this weekend to see what is going on there ) and i have already harvested some...
the ever bearing...
and wild strawberries are blooming...and, holding to the pattern, they have been discovered later than last year when the were both out on april twelfth...someone is tardy...difficult to know whom...
and becuse the berries, as well as a host of other spring flowers lincluding the daffodils, tulips, and violets are blooming the bee houses are alive with mason bees working on moving their dna along to a new generation which, to steal a line from old sam pepys, "pleases me mightily"...spuds, maize, and teosinte coming up in may.
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