Yes, it can be depressing for garden lovers...

to see all that snow, the cold temps.The damage that becomes obvious as the snow melts (boxwoods are crunched, many of the azaleas look drunk but they are alive...)....but i decided to do what i could.Gardeners are nothnig if not a hopeful lot  :)

the daffs and iris and things are green and growing, despite everything. amazing. we found the little cocker stature and the house sign-WAY over in the yard. why did the local guy think piling EVERYONE'S road snow up on my property was OK? sigh.as it runs, huge ruts are appearing in the driveway. thanks, guys. uh, really.You choose the steepest driveway in the neighborhood to pile stuff on. yup, sure makes sense to me..not the driveways in the EMPTY houses or those driveways that are flat and have ditching to carry off water..

I moved the lettuce and spinach to the end of the green house still standing. they don;t care how the roof looks-should grow into nice salads anyway. I started some broccoli and fennel.....the little asparagus plants are so cute! lots of onions in the little soil blocks-maybe too many, considering we probably can only throw on compost and gently shape the bed-no tilling even broadfork with ground this wet.will make it hard to get the onions set out. so glad I started multiplier onions, garlic and shallots last fall.we will have SOME crop  :)

still have flowers tomatoes , squashes and basil to start-potatoes to chit, sweet potato slips to cut, but that comes as things finally warm up.Peppers finally beginning to sprout. I'm sort of out of room under the grow lights.....will have to figure some solution; older plants could sit on the shelves in the greenhouse in a few more days.I guess I'm really determined not to let it all go flat to the ground! have it propped with bamboo stakes..

then I have to decide when to start stacking plants in the parsnip bed (using the Gaia's Garden seven plant species self care bed)-April I think...though i will then worry about enough sun for the parsnips, at least I might be able to broadfork that bed.

and one final chore-currants, cherries, siberian peabush and autumn olive bushes for the apple trees. and fennel, comfrey, dill, flowers, turnips and dutch clover...under them. Maybe a strip bed of horseradish-dont; thin, deer like them. and oh-cutting up the fallen pines trees laying over the berry patch.the other permaculture was completely swamped when the creek came up over the roadbed; not sure what can be done down there. wonder if the chinese yams survived? skirret was down low and I have little hope for those plants.

I want to sprout the peas inside and then move out and cover with row covers for a few days. that  should keep us on track. the potato grow bags can sit in the ruined green house too, for a few weeks.Maybe it will be OK.

just bites.I want to reposition the white fabric strips at more of a angle, by rebuilding the front edges of the raised beds, but really cant...with this much precip.it'll be August....well maybe some things will be done and I can rebuild beds/amend then  :) I did A LOT of work last fall.