We had  almost an inch of rain last night, which was good as things were starting to get  a little dry.  Used my wonderful hoe today again, and noticed that there are blooms on the green beans.  The sweet corn is about 10 inches high. Onions  are   great , garlic is so so , dill and carrots  are growing, as are the potatoes.

There Blue Birds  have built another nest , so hopefully we will have another brood of little birds.

Nothing like taking a  city girl and putting her in the country,  I encountered poison ivy last Sunday, only a few more new blisters  today. Hopefully in another week things will be getting better.

  The garden is growing , everything looks good, we had  fresh lettuce greens for a  salad tonight , very tasty.  I planted 6 asparagus , 2 sage plants, and marigolds, all from Lorri.  These  plants  look wonderful, very healthy.   We had 1.5 inches of rain this  week,so a few days without rain would be nice.  I would guess that the beans will be the next thing that I will get to harvest, then the carrots.  Although I can't wait to taste sweet corn and tomatoes and little new potatoes. 

I peaked in the Blue Bird house  last week and there  were 3-4 little blue birds, it was hard to tell as  they were packed in.  Today I checked  when we got home and they have fledged.  I hope that there will be another  brood this summer. 

Slowly we are getting come control of this yard, but it will be  a  work in progress for  a long time. There is always  something that needs to be mowed, or cut down, weeded or hauled away. But it is giving us things to do. 

We have had plenty of rain, Thurs. we had 1.07 in. in about 14 hours. Things  are really wet. Then Fri. it had been warm and quite humid.  The weeds are loving this.    But  I  did plant Brussel Sprouts today.   I also checked  and found that  the potatoes  are popping up. I found  4 little bumps  of green leaves.  So everything I have planted is growing. Pretty amazing to me.

And my new hoe  makes  weeding the garden  very easy and quick.

I am still getting asparagus to eat.  Not much, a couple of spears each day and they are  mostly very thin.  Most have gone to seed already. There  could be wild raspberries. There are bushes all over the yard, pastures that   have little buds of  fruit starting.   I am hoping that  I can walk all over  the  fields and by the creek and  pick raspberries.

Mars and I did our daily walk to the garden and guess what we found today?    The sweet corn has popped up and so have the pumpkins! It is amazing what 1/2 in. of rain and  warm temps  will do for a  garden, because they were not there yesterday.  But  on that note the weeds are also growing so I will get to use my new garden Hoe again.  Which is a  totally awesome garden hoe.  It is " U" shaped and has blades on both sides , so that it will cut the weeds when you push and pull it through the dirt. 

This past weekend Brad and Nikole came down,and we had  a really busy weekend.  Mars,Honey and Indiana were good and sat waiting for the action to start.   They did go off and explore later, Nikole took them for a  " swim" in the creek. 

We put in fencing for my garden in hopes it will keep the deer out or at least  make them think about jumping the fence. I think it went up pretty quickly with all of us working on it. 

 Here is the finished project, it just needs a  gate, but that will be another day. 

And  here are my green beans  just starting to pop up,  so at least I know I can do beans.

This was the second  project, to put  large rock along the edge of flower beds from the drive way down to the bottom of steps, and it blended right in with the rocks I had put in several weeks ago to keep mulch from washing away. 

The Vampires in the neighborhood  won't have a chance !!!  I just planted  two rows of garlic ,   also planted  my potatoes.  It is to rain late Sat.and  then rain every day till Thurs., plus  temps are to be in the 70's.  So  I think that is just what a new little garden needs, rain, sun, and warm temps.  The only thing that has started to appear are the onion sets.  I had hoped  more would be up by now ,guess I am being impatient.  The only thing left to plant  are the tomatoes, green pepper.
My sister and I have ordered tomatoes from the Garden Collection, which boosts  " giant  tomatoes and bushels per vine" !!  Those are some pretty amazing claims, if only that would happen. So we will see.  Those plants  should arrive  mid May.  I will also buy tomato plants at the garden center in Boone just in case .

  I also checked Blue Bird house and I could feel eggs in the nest. It is to high up for me  to see into the nest ,  will need to get a ladder or mirror.

Another  beautiful day here, the rock edging I did seems to be staying in place, is keeping the wood mulch in place and the Sedum and Hosta I transplanted looks ok.  So  this weekend the plan will be to do rock edging from the driveway down to the steps to the patio/ fire pit area.

There is asparagus growing by the fence, Mars  was helping me pick it tonight, should be enough for 2 small servings tomorrow ( I hope ) . If not I will just  keep picking until we do have enough.