Adios snow and welcome dirty fingernails

Picture this... The weather is nice and it is the day when you finally see the last piece of snow/ice melting away. You are walking down the driveway to see a newt make his way across to where ever newts go. The goats are laying down chewing their cud by a grassy area among leaves, raspberries canes, and under the shade of huge hemlocks. Fugee is tied to a tree (otherwise she would take off) laying flat and chewing on the different things that she might find around her. It is time to open windows and let the cool air in the house. You are barefoot and the warmth of the soil in the beds makes you want to transplant this, fertilize this and weed this...you realize...IT IS FINALLY SPRING at Ladeau Road! 

Everyone wants to be active and that means lots of projects to accomplish during the weekend and even after work. Some projects include: 

• Changing the pump from the  water well since it stopped working, we believe that it could have been lightning and an exposed wire. 
• Cutting the huge patch of berries to let more sunlight in the garden and grow flowers in their place. 
• Fixing that old wheelbarrow that held old bee boxes all winter and was useless last season. It just needed a new set of legs!
• Planting shallots and onion sets, peas and radishes. Weeding, moving flowers, planting flowers and fixing old and new rock walls.
• Taking Fugee to the dog park after being closed for late winter/early spring.
• Second or third attempt to grow grass in the front side of the house. Spreading seeds in the patchy areas. 
• Started swiss chard, flowers (morning glory, as a climbing vine), and plum seeds.
• Trying to grow ginger, tumeric and Galangal a gingery root from Costa Rica 

The list goes on and on.  Instead here are some pictures! and more coming soon ! 

Parsnips that were sowed last fall started to sprout

Fugee gets her second run at the dog park after being closed for some time

Asa and Che Che being content and curious about everything we do

Rhubarb coming out and from what I read they are better for you than cranberries

Wild onions or ramps growing by an apple tree, we used the first of these in a salad

Trays that lived inside during early spring can come out and enjoy some sun 

Broccoli, cabbage, carrots, beets, greens and onions

Garlic coming out