Check out our past week:
We have had a wild weather week. It rained and then rained some more. There were a few days of severe thunderstorms and flash flooding. And... a frost warning too just to keep thing interesting. Our weather radio got a workout this past week, but all is well at our house. Gotta love Wisconsin weather!
We picked up a new bird bath. This was my Mother's Day gift, plus breakfast in bed with roses!
Right on que the tulips decided to bloom on Mother's Day. That was a gift in itself.
We started to see Hummingbirds! So it was time to fill up the hummingbird feeder with homemade hummingbird nectar. Our feeder is right outside our kitchen bay window, so we get to see the hummingbirds quite often. Here is our Homemade Hummingbird Nectar recipe.
The yard got some much needed attention. Ron has been busy with sweeping, aerating and seeding the lawn. A much need task as a drought several years ago left a few bare areas that we have pretty much ignored.
We tried to rototill the garden but the rototiller had other plans... The handlebar snapped off after just a few passes in the garden. So my jack-of-all-trades husband welded and grinded the pieces back together and strengthened the other handle too. Then the garden did get rototilled!
There were a few surprises discovered in the garden. We had a some wintered over vegetables and herbs. There are onions (guess we forget to harvest a few), lettuce (because I let it go to seed last fall) and parsley back again.
Our first harvest took place this week. We harvested 10 ounces of asparagus. This may not seem like much but asparagus takes 2 years of growing before you even get to harvest it and this is our very first harvest ever! I can't wait for this patch to take off in the years to come.
Check out our recipe for Cream of Asparagus Soup to use up some of your harvest.
Happy gardening this coming week!
