More seeds and . . .

Sunday afternoon, planted spinach seeds and onion sets in half of one of our big raised beds. Yum, can't wait for the spinach to get big enough to eat. Planning on planting lettuce seeds soon - if the weather isn't too blustery like the last two days. I have a few tiny cabbage, broccoli-raab, leeks and radicchio plants coming up. At the same time I planted those, I planted shallot sets that Roger bought for me. Love to cook with them! (Kinda like mild onions with slight garlic flavor.) Have you seen the price of them in the grocery store? Weeding the flower beds should be the next task - between planting veggie seeds
My daffodils are done and a few tulips I have are blooming very nicely. Sweet peas are up and I have some extras in small pots to share if anyone would like some.
We bought some tree seedlings at Weyerhaeuser's Rochester nursery on March 20th. Since we don't yet know exactly where to plant 30 Douglas Fir, 10 Nobles, 5 Red Twig Dogwood, 15 Fraser Fir plus others, we have been using tall nursery pots and burlap bags for their temporary homes with some sifted topsoil we had leftover from the building project.

Welcome

Welcome to the Peaceful Gardners Blog. In the next couple of days I will try and get the past e-mails put into the blog as postings. Also, please let me know if I missed anyone who wanted to join the blog.

Roses

Some roses that have enjoyed the shade in my garden are Betty Boop (a bi-color orange, pink, red with ivory/white Floribunda), Grand Prize (mine is a tree rose with ivory blooms, also grown as a tea rose), Playboy (Orange and white floribunda), & Hot Cocoa (cinnamon color Floribunda). Now that the neighbor's plum tree has been cut down I find that they also enjoy the sun & at times produce different color variations. You can also type in Pacific Northwest shade loving roses or something like that in your web browser and check out some of the local rose society websites like Tacomas, Seattles and Olympias and most likely find listings and pictures sometimes. I liked your God's Garden poem and will be sending it to a friend and to my mom as they're both gardeners.