spring garden

Some of the snap peas are appearing!

The two types grow different- one side of the bed they climbed taller than the other, one side has white flowers and the other side there's pale blue, violet and pink flowers. I forget which are the sugar snaps and which the golden snap peas, though.

The greens bed is still very full. The few tatsoi, and all the tokyo bekana, are bolting now. 

Seed pods on older tokyo bekana are getting nice and fat

I've been eating sandwiches of honey, peanut butter and lettuce to just use it up-

I could start eating young kale leaves, now-

My pink clematis is fading, but the purple one is glorious. 

Other view. The still-empty beds will have tomatoes, zucchini and maybe cucumbers, benne and cowpeas. I've not decided yet whether to keep the peppers in pots or plant in the garden.

Roots bed is growing well- here's the end with turnip-rutabagas, some carrots, golden beets

the middle section red beets and more carrots

the other end with turnips

Found another cicada among them

I've seen a swallowtail butterfly flitting among the ferny carrot leaves, and I knew what it was doing. Sure enough, here's a bunch of tiny black bumpy caterpillars.

Don't want them eating my carrots, so I moved some to the rue and lovage