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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Daffodils, Forsythia & Cherry Plums in Bloom!





Glorious spring is so close we can't help but be outside! This past Sunday was sheer Eden. Our Cherry Plums, for the first time, bloomed at the same time. It was lovely! Rodolfo and I spent the day preparing part of our backyard for our first vegetable garden. We are going to do a small potager, which is French for "kitchen garden". Unlike American vegetable gardens where one tends to sow row upon row of the same crop and then have a giant harvest in the fall, in the potager one rotates a small number of a variety of vegetables and flowers each season, so you even have vegetables coming up in the winter. I can't wait to get started and I really hope the squirrels do not eat everything I plant! I also pruned my roses. Can't wait for April 15th-- it's the last frost date and then it means I am clear to be outside from then until mid-October!

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