6 more kinds of daffodils in my garden

I was thrilled with the 11 varieties of daffodils that were blooming at the end of March.

Now another six are out.

An Easter bouquet of daffodils

So many varieties blooming in one bed on Easter Sunday! Here are 11 .. and maybe I missed one?

Spring has sprung: The daffodils are out!

The first one…

It’s March 3, it’s 65 degrees, sunny … and five — count ’em, five! — daffodils are properly blooming. A record for the first-day bloom count! Yay, spring is here!

I turn 25 pounds of plum tomatoes into a dozen jars of Indian tomato pickle

I knew there was a reason why I was keeping all those empty jam jars.

Full disclosure: these are not tomatoes from my garden.

But one of the vendors at the local farmers market was selling a box (25+ pounds) of organic plum tomatoes for $25, it was pouring rain and the forecast was for more all weekend … so why not make Indian tomato pickle?

Happy Alma Potschke, happy bees and butterflies

I walked along our front walkway on a glorious Indian summer day earlier this week. These pink New England asters may have been the happiest I’ve ever seen them. Bees and butterflies were everywhere, just a bit camera-shy.

First tomatoes of 2023

I love the smell tomato plants leave when I brush my hands on them. And I love the taste of Sungolds.

We got these in the ground in late May (don’t think it was as late as early June) so I’m just thrilled that I could pluck the first two tomatoes from our garden this year. I left the third for … tomorrow?

I just harvested two zucchinis before they morphed into baseball bats. That’s already three, and a fourth is close. I may be baking delicious chocolate zucchini cake in the next few days….

My daffodlils put on the best show ever — and then this heat wave roasted them

Oh how my daffodils are struggling right now. We’ve had several straight days in the 80s — when does that ever happen in mid-April in central New Jersey?

And those daffodils that looked so so amazing at the start of the month are now toast.