The Flicker Haven Farm Files-Spring Showers And Flowers

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Yesterday, I spent most of my day on the side of a mountain dismantling my new yurt's floor and subfloor, loading the floor and the yurt, and then hauled it all home.

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It was a day.

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That said, in the future I will do a series of posts that will result when we put everything back together. It should be fun lol!

However, this is a garden update post, and boy do I ever have some updates! It's amazing what happens to one's garden when they head of to the woods for a few days!

To start with, my rhubarb plants are out of control! Not that I mind, I chuck the extra rhubarb in the freezer for future wine making and comestible baking. In fact, I have crafted a new rhubarb recipe to try and share with ya'll in a couple of days!

The inhabitants of my greenhouse are starting to get very lush in appearance, and as a huge tomato fan, I am so not sorry about this development. In fact, we are supposed to (finally) get a bit of heat this coming week, so I am sure everything is going to explode.

Because due to our wet, cold spring, we are way behind. Our tulips are still in full bloom and our chestnut tree still hasn't fully leafed out. In fact, a friend of mine told me as of last Wednesday that our part of the world hadn't broke 70 degrees Fahrenheit in 235 days, which destroyed the record from the 1800's by over a week!

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Every year on Memorial Day Weekend I take some lilacs cut from my bushes to the graves of a couple dear family members. This ritual is always the same, but this year, this year they get tulips. I'm sure they won't mind...

Moving out to the garden, I am still in awe at the performance of my garlic crop. Just look at the size of the beasties! Pesto and roasted garlic here I come!

The taters are fully through the soil now, which is nice, and all that volunteer lettuce sprinkled about the garden is just about ready to start getting eaten.

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The day before yesterday, the hubs rolled out the garden irrigation, which is totally not required yet, but as I live in a land of extremes, I know in a few weeks I will be irrigating the garden. We use a timer and drip lines off of mainlines for our irrigation needs. It is much more efficient that using a sprinkler (at least in our case), and we have had a much more successful yield with focused watering applied via timer.

The peas, kale, and hops are all growing like gangbusters, and I seriously can't wait to watch them all double in size as soon as the mercury blows past seventy.

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Finally, as I wandered back to the house, I took a peek at the peony situation. I had to move a peony to make room for my new hydrangea bush, and the peony I moved is growing nicely.

When I dug up the peony I broke off a piece of its root (derp), so I stuck it in a vase of water with just the top peeking out for a couple of weeks til I started seeing node development and stalks starting to form on top of the root. Right before I left for the woods last week, I planted the root section, and check out the results:

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Of course then my attention got distracted by a lone purple pansy, the snow in summer that is starting to bloom, and some gorgeous little narcissus blooms.

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All in all my garden is definitely coming along. This weekend I have to transplant marigolds, echinacea, calendula, and basil, along with soaking and seeding my corn and a few other warm weather crops.

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Hope all is growing and rolling for ya'll!

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And as most of the time, all of the images in this post were taken on the author's slightly damp with dew and always rather warm iPhone. The text divider image was made in Canva.

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