
The tomato plants had to be covered a couple of times since being planted in February to protect from possible frosts, but they’ve shot up and have blooms and at least one small tomato. They share the small space with turnips, radishes, lettuce, beets, onions and carrots.
Yesterday the calendar marked spring’s first official day. Despite longer periods of cold weather throughout the winter months than is usually experienced here in northwest Harris County, evidence of spring is busting out everywhere in the yard. The big oak tree that shades the house in the summer is dirtying up the patio with its series of nasty droppings of “really-I-don’t-know-what” along with last year’s leaves that were still trying to hand on after a couple of late frosts. Recent rains with a few days of sunshine have perked up the grass and all of the plants already growing and others are piping up throughout the ground.

The milkweed plants in the sunny south flour bed made it through the cold days, but now their leaves are being devoured by a hoard of monarch caterpillars.
Filed under: Gardening and Flowers, It's What I Like | Tagged: cocoon, day lilies, milkweed, monarch butterfly, radishes, Spring weather, tomato plants, turnips, vegetable garden |
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