we've been officially welcomed to the community by the Feed&Seed this spring. last fall when i went in for Straw to help our perennials enjoy the winter; we were given Hay instead. when the guy pulled the bail out of the truck it was on; i told him that the other guy had said that was the Hay truck and i had previously gotten Straw from the other truck. Guy said no, this is straw. I took the Hay back to the garden and W says that's not straw, it's Hay. i say, that's what i thought but the guy assured me it was Straw. I took the Hay back to the Feed&Seed and said "we think this is Hay and we really need Straw for the garden beds so we're Not Planting Hay in our garden. Guys say's, yeah, that's Straw.... IT WAS HAY. and now we get to weed Hay from every garden bed that overwintered a plant.
the garden bed next to the back porch is going to be a salad bar this year. we planted the green onions and nasturtium already. next will be lettuces, kale, broccoli and spinach. then currant tomatoes, cucumbers, grape tomatoes.
the asparagus row seems to have been given some extra hardship by critters over the winter and so far w can only find a few shoots that have awoken from their slumber. we were able to winter 2 small persimmon trees, a ginkgo tree, 2 goji berries, a pineapple tree and a ginger root. none of which have been placed in their forever home yet. the rosemary planted on the island last year has not shown signs of life yet but the lavenders have done well except the 2 that got ate... we've got 2 more to stick in their place that w gre from seed.