Garden Update

 

On the Saturday before Mother's Day, we finally got a beautiful weekend and though the garden wasn't quite dry enough to work first thing in the morning, by the afternoon it was working beautifully. I was able to mow around everything only getting stuck once. Then I started in tilling the garden so we could plant a couple rows of potatoes in that area to the left of the strawberry bed. Further to the left we planted five rows of various pole beans and I pounded in fence posts and strung up panels for them to climb later on. On beyond that, we planted another half dozen rows or so of various other dry shell beans. All these beans are test plantings to see what varieties grow well so that perhaps in the future we can winnow down our selection and plant what works best for us. 

Unfortunately, I was too beat by the end of the day that I didn't really get much for other pictures, except one to rub in the face of Debby to show off all the asparagus coming out. This is always my favorite time of the year when we have more asparagus and mushroom than we know what to do with. For the last two days, we've eaten asparagus, morel mushroom omelets for breakfast! Because I pickled a lot of asparagus last year and still have a lot left, we are giving the bulk of it away this year and just keeping enough to thoroughly get sick of eating it. 

P.S. Due to circumstances, I probably won't be able to get back to hunt any more morels mushrooms this week and the season will be over by the time I do. Fortunately my brother is visiting and he was able to pick about 3 or 4 times the amount of morels I have found thus far, mostly due to them being yellow and much larger than the gray morels I was finding in the early part of the season and partly because this has turned out to be a stellar year for morel mushrooms. He was so kind (because he doesn't like eating them) to give us a huge sack full and so our refrigerator is stuffed with enough mushrooms to last us until we are sick of eating them in everything.