Beautiful Weather

When the weather turns spring like in the middle of February, I need to plant flowers to bring in color and cheer up a dreary garden.

I planted yellow Violas in an old wheelbarrow tire that popped while we were moving concrete on a cold morning. A bit of a story, and quite funny, I keep the tire as a reminder.

Some beautiful lavender that I planted for the bees. I have many more bee loving plants in the green house: borage, dill and more lavender. Still too small to plant outside.

My small lettuce patch is in the cast iron sink we removed from the kitchen, the screen door fell off the hinges of the back door so I repurposed it into a planter with a few rusty leftover bits I bought from a welder off Craigslist. It sits on an old ice chest that I will add a burlap skirt to later in the season so you can't see it, I will post pics when done and all the plants are planted.

  I planted cover crop this season, a green manure or plow mix as it is referred to. It contains vetch, fava bean, some other bean and something else (very specific plant names, I know, but I forgot the other seeds). I do not till the gardens so when its time to chop it down I will weed eat it and turn the soil a few times to incorporate.

An empty bird feeder. I will fill it one of these days but the cats in the neighborhood already love our yard so I don't want them getting used to an easy meal. And I don't want to deal with the mounds of finch poop that will most likely sprout and cause me to pull more weeds. For now it will remain empty and just something to look at while out in the garlic patch.

What will you plant when the weather starts warming?