Waking Up

We enjoyed our first rhubarb harvest.  These were organic plants we put in last spring and watched them creep through the season.  This spring they came up big and healthy.  We'll only harvest a few times and then let them have the rest of the season to grow strong.  Our first harvest yielded six cups of rhubarb for the freezer.

I read that rhubarb leaves are good mulch.  It makes sense.  They are so big.  So after cutting the leaves off, we put them around the rhubarb plants to hold the weeds down.

In the category of things-that-only-happen-with-children-in-the-house, we have a butt mark in the flat of onions.  This flat is one too many to fit under the grow lights, so we have it by the back window.  We have been pleased that our three-year-old hasn't dug in the dirt, but the other day he was standing next to it, lost his balance, and in went the butt.  It looks like most of the onions survived the trauma.

Last year our ten-year-old twins made a bird feeder at girl scouts.  We hung it right outside the back window and then watched a bird pair take it over as a nesting site.  They are back this year.  It is a good nesting location: sheltered, safe from squirrels, and food right there.

The land is waking up.