April,2010

The play, "Beauty & the Beast" was a huge success. Three sold out performances! The cast and crew were wonderful. Now that the rehearsal frenzy is over and the weather is better, it's time to get the garden ready. Yesterday was a warm, dry day after almost a week of rain, rain, and more rain! Our heavy clay soil just holds that moisture and it takes time to drain. I was able to clean up our side flower garden and the raised beds. Thank goodness for those raised beds. I have been building them over the years, since we have a yard full of boulders that we can't budge. So... the solution was to use them as borders and build up the soil around them to make the raised beds. With our heavy soil, it works! I planted asparagus in one bed. Today I will plant lettuce, spinach and chard. I also harvested a whole bucket of Jerusalem artichokes from the bed I was preparing for the asparagus. They just multiply! There are still many areas of the garden where they grow every year.