Just a little update.

I’ve been blogging everywhere this week except here! But since I’m about to embark on a four-day holiday to Galiano Island I figured I should probably put in an appearance here today with a quick garden update. Not that there’s much to say except that my beans are sprouting in the garden, and quickly! Which means that planting them a week earlier than I was supposed to didn’t hurt them.

I should note that for the last week or so we’ve been regularly eating out of the garden – in particular radishes, joi choi, lettuce and the first spinach last night. Last Sunday’s shopping was the first time in months that I haven’t bought greens and I’ll be happy to see less and less produce in my grocery basket as the summer comes on and we’re taking more from the garden.

When I get back from the Island, I think it will be time to plant out my cucumber starts and possibly even my peppers which are currently languishing in the studio out back, all ready to flower with nowhere to go until I’m assured of warmer temperatures. I’ve got more of everything to plant, but the boxes out back are starting to look pretty damned green!

In other gardening news, on Tuesday we got the $1300 grant to move ahead with the boulevard gardening project and while at the ceremony, one of our project folks ran into someone from the city staff who was excited about us doing food plantings (including possibly fruit trees) as part of our project and suggested that the city might kick down for soil testing so we could be a community pilot project. We’ve got our first planning meeting next week so from there we’ll start mapping out the work plan, and figuring out what exactly to spend that money on.

It is definitely spring in the East Side garden, and I’ll be updating with more photos soon!