Fenton Friday: Finally Feeling like Spring!

This past week, we had a little more rain along with some chilly nights and very windy days. The forecast for the next 10 days shows lots of sun and warmth, so I think we may be past any more frost/freeze alerts for the season. (Knock on wood!)

Our cistern faucets are still not connected so any watering we do needs to be hauled from home -- not fun. I'm hoping we get some decent rains and we can avoid that chore -- but please no rain on weekend garden festival days!

The cool-season seedlings are all doing nicely (see pic above). They include 'Traditional Chioggia' Beets, Black Seeded, Simpson Lettuce, Cilantro, Arugula, 'Frosty' Peas, and the 'White Globe' Turnips.

We officially gave up on the 'Crispy Colors Duo' Kohlrabi and 'New Zealand; Spinach. In their respective places now is Carrot 'Dragon' and Radish 'Plum Purple' -- both of which I bought from https://seedsavers.org/. I have not grown these varities before and honestly picked them simply because they look gorgeous in the catalog photos. I hope they taste as good!

We did a little weeding and .I was able to harvest a few more Asparagus spears this week. 

The thornless Blackberry is covered in blossoms so I take that as a good indication of lots of fruits this summer. I have also seen a few flowers appearing on our Strawberry plants.

We added a row of heirloom Dill 'Leafy Diana.' I'm not expecting to harvest anything from these plants -- just growing it for the pollinators. Speaking of which, we still need to clean out the Pollinator Garden strip and start more pollinator-supporting flowers from seed in there. I might get to that right after Easter.

What are you growing in your edible garden this week?

About Fenton Friday: Every Friday during the growing season, I'll be giving you an update on my community garden plot at the Fenton Street Community Garden just across the street from my house in zone 7 Mid-Atlantic MD/DC border. I'm plot #16. It is a 10 ft x 20 ft space and this is our 13th year in the garden. (It opened in May 2011.) See past posts about our edible garden by putting "Fenton"  into the Search box above (at the top, left on this blog).