start of summer.

We've been pretty spoiled so far this spring with many lovely days of warm temperatures. We've had something unheard of like 9 sunny weekends in a row. Love it! If it's going to rain, rain while I'm at work, I say. So there's been plenty of good weather to tend to the garden, which makes this girl very happy. And, I've already made the first batch of preserves from rhubarb that was planted 4 years ago. So pretty in it's ruby pink color.


The garden is beginning to shape up as well. I took the risk and got tomato plants in the ground. The rule of thumb in the PNW is that they're safe after Mother's Day, but it still tends to be cool through June. Also seeded some cucumber (for eating and pickling), baby blue-bell squash (blue skin and sweet orange flesh), zucchini and two varieties of beans. It's always fun to see the beans break through the ground- a sure sign of summer coming.

I'm trying to be better about thinning the seedlings this year. It's the proper way to grow veggies for the
best production, but I always end up feeling like a killer of the tiny shoots! I added the thinned beets to a lovely garden salad, along with some home grown breakfast radishes, and it was spring in a bowl.