April Showers

The way this weather is going, we should be seeing lots of pilgrims soon...

The arugula is doing well. This was it at the beginning of April, and it's fully grown now. I've started some more down the same onion row.

The trees are showing lots of good new growth.

It's still frequently cloudy, even rainy, but the trees are really leafing out. It looks like a glen again!

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Hi Katinka! Sorry for so few posts lately!
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There are tons of cherries, which the birds will probably get most of...

And oodles of plums also.

The lilacs look beautiful on a sunny day.

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Weather Note
April is often fickle and this year is no exception. It's sunny, then cloudy, then raining, then windy, then sunny, then... and that's just one hour! We're now getting some highs in the 70s, but it's still chilly at night.
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By mid April, the dogwood has fully bloomed. It's so lovely!

So what have we actually been doing this month? You mean besides drinking beer??? Well... we started working on the pizza oven. Here is the plot laid out where the slab will go. Notice the slick porch made of recycled pallets.

When you need destruction, who ya gonna call? Dirtbusters! Here Billy hams it up with the pickaxe.

Then we dug up some dirt. The dirt is going in the compost pile. I cleaned out the whole winter's worth of chicken manure, and we layered it with the grass clippings and leaves that we stored from last fall. We should have hot, nutritious compost soon.

Rick helped set up the greenhouse table. He bungie-corded the frame down, and it's covered with a greenhouse tarp, with plastic on the ends. On the bottom, over the slats, we laid those plastic floor mats used under office chairs. That keeps it warmer and helps direct any water runoff. It gets nice and warm in the greenhouse, and everything is at a good working height. Rick even moved the leg brace so we can store things underneath. Best of all, the red grid stuff exactly fits the beer cups I use as 4-inch pots.

And for a fun project, we started painting some wood scraps to make cutesy garden signs.

Happy April 20! Happy Earth Day!