It’s warmer and sunnier, the mud is more or less dry, and the grass (and weeds!) are starting to grow. That means I can actually do outside gardening stuff, which is wonderful after winter. We were away for a week in Kentucky, as there’s a 3-Day Event (horseback riding) and an aunt to visit, and they’ve already got blooms on the cherry trees down there. At home, it’s time to weed, plan out the garden layout, dig some of the garden areas, and transplant / plant a few things. The garlic is growing well too. Very exciting!

Inside, I will soon be starting my second batch of indoor-starters, and possibly potting up some of my tomatoes. Potting up means transferring them from the pots in which they currently reside into larger ones so that they can continue to grow well. One of the things I like about this stage of the indoor starts is that the tomato plants all smell so wonderfully of tomato plant! Yes, I’m aware that that sounds a little silly, but it’s true. If you are in a pick-your-own, or a garden centre, or here at our farm, take a sniff of the tomato plants and there should be a nice, and uniquely “tomato-y”, fragrance. 

It’s also great to hear all the spring sounds coming along - the birds and frogs I noted earlier, and now there are more! Toads occasionally too, which is cool because while even I have to admit that toads are relatively ugly, they have a very pretty song - it’s a trilling call that’s different from the shorter notes you hear from frogs. 

And of course, there’s SUNSHINE!