The Kitchen Gardens in March

Tulips in the Sunshine!

Red Moneymaker, Yellow Seattle, Orange Ballerina, White Triumphator, Emperors, Princess Irene, and Negrita

Princess Irene tulips, White Emperors, and Purple Negrita

So many colors!

Princess Irene tulips with snow peas, spinach, and sorrel

Artichoke foliage with Princess Irene tulips, pansies, arugula, and Emperor tulips

The full view!

Ballerina Tulips and Apple Blossoms

Ballerina tulips with spinach, chives, and artichoke foliage in the background

 

Ballerina tulips add some good color to this snow pea trellis next to the blossoming apple tree

Ballerina tulips with chervil and the espalier apple tree

Apple blossoms with a few Ballerina tulips below in the pachysandra bed

Back Yard Kitchen Gardens in April

Tulips in the Kitchen Gardens

 

 

 

Purple Negrita & White Emperor Tulips

 Tulips with rows of shelling peas

Tulips with Glacier cherry tree, snap peas tipi, and artichoke foliage

Camellia in the background on the left, Glacier cherry on the right

Tulips and Tipi Trellises

Emperor tulips, snap peas, and poppies

Mid-April Kitchen Gardens

 

 

Tulips and Trellises

Emperor tulips and snow pea trellis in the square foot bed

Orange and white Emperor tulips

Tulips, snow peas, lettuces, arugula, lavender, columbine, poppies, and herbs

A view from the deck

Emperor Tulips!

Orange Emperor tulip
(Emperor tulips are the common name for tulips in the Fosteriana tulip group.)

Orange Emperor tulips in the square foot garden with sorrel, snow peas, and beets

Orange Emperor tulips with snow peas, arugula, poppies, and lavender 
  As you can see, my definition of square foot gardening has evolved over the years!

Emperor tulips, snow peas, sorrel, lettuce, radishes, arugula, poppies, beets, and lavender

Yellow Emperor tulip (aka Yellow Purissima)

Yellow Emperor tulips in the front Japanese maple bed

The first of the white Emperor tulips in the front Hollywood plum tree bed

Yellow Emperor tulips in the front Hollywood plum tree bed

March Vegetable Gardens

Lots of new seedlings this month along with overwintered flowers, herbs, and vegetables

Growing in these beds right now:

Spinach, kale, chives, chervil, rosemary, sorrel, rhubarb, snow peas, snap peas, shelling peas, radishes, onions, rudbeckia, violas, forget-me-nots, poppies, hyacinths, daffodils, and four kinds of tulips

Square foot garden bed with a large trellis ready for Schweizer Riesen snow peas

Growing in this bed right now:

Snow peas, lettuce, beets, radishes, arugula, chives, sorrel, strawberries, oregano, sage, poppies, lavender, primroses, sedum, grape hyacinths, and two kinds of tulips

Sunshine in the Summer Gardens

Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia) in front of the vegetable beds

Divina butterhead lettuce and Umpqua broccoli seedlings

Sorrell, savoy cabbage, red cabbages, and fall spinach

Onions, leeks, and pole beans

Cosmos in the carrot beds

A new planting of carrots and onions for fall

Square foot garden bed with new carrots, beets, spinach, and cherry tomatoes

Black-eyed Susans , nasturtiums, and vegetables in all their glory

The full view