Spring Pleasures

    

 I love fresh asparagus.  The best thing about asparagus is that it's ready to harvest at the same time that all the other vegetables are just going into the ground.  No waiting!  This is my purple asparagus plant.  It was great fun to get going, now in it's 4th year I can harvest more heavily than before.

To start, I dug a 18inch deep trench, loosened the soil at the base and added a lot of horse manure.  Each year in the early spring I added another 4 to 6 inches of good soil and compost and manure on top and weeded a lot.  Each year the shoots got thicker and now it's finally reached maturity.  A well cared for asparagus row can live 30-35 years.

And the taste of fresh asparagus is like NOTHING you've EVER TASTED.  It absolutely melts in your mouth.

These are just about the last daffodils.

  Saskatoons are going to do wonderfully this year.  Also known as June berries, and native to Canada, these are very much like blueberries.  The are more nutritious, actually, and a darker color.  Nothing like 'em!

 

 Red currants come in so much sooner than the black ones, yay!

What's left of the red tulips, still beautiful.  These were spring planted so they are very late in blooming.  Dearest little one is marked here.  A deer came and ate half of them, but the others are fine.

This was my first day this spring to water.  The beauty is just captivating.