April 9 - from fingerlings to flowers, it's spring in the garden

The greenhouse is full of seeds in various stages of germination, and in the fields the potatoes, onions, peas, and many of the spring direct-seed vegetables are just starting to poke through the dirt. In the experimental garden, the Egyptian walking onions we planted last year are resprouting on their own.  

Last weekend we transplanted the kohlrabi, cabbage, savoy, bok choy, sunflowers and cosmos, and this weekend we'll transplant tatsoi, beets, lettuce, and zinnias if they're large enough.

Three different varieties of fingerlings

Dividing the Egyptian walking onions

Mille-fleur tapestry in the garden

An actual Middle Age/Renaissance mille-fleur ("thousand flower") tapestry