Ha! You thought I would already be harvesting berries??? Fat chance! We're still dipping below 0C during the nights....so no, my berry plants were still buried under all that straw I put on them in the Fall.
But yesterday, I did take about half of the straw off. I want the ground under the plants to be able to start warming up, and it can't do it with all that straw on top.
So, I'll leave them like this for another week or so, then if the temperatures are kind, I'll remove the rest of the straw, give the beds a good weeding and hopefully then the plants will start to grow!
I've been doing a bunch of weeding and trying to get the odd flower container ready. I've had these two pots for proably 8 years or so....they were starting to look pretty bad!
I bought a couple of plant stands to use out on the porch, so I gave these pots a painting....
I LOVE this stuff! It's fantastic for spraying plastic. I used to use it on our old lawn chairs, the plastic white ones you can buy. I changed them to green using this stuff!
Here's the end result. Don't those pots look Much Better now? I've got a Wave Petunia planted in each container.....eventually I'll have one pot on either side of our porch. But right now, I am still hardening off the petunias, so I have them bunched together. Just makes it a tad faster for me to move them out to the sun, then up tight against the house at night time.
My living room is completely overflowing with seedlings. Yes, I have corn growing in the living room, ha!
I have already started hardening off the cabbage plants, and I may just go ahead and plant them in the garden this weekend. They are quite cold hardy, so I am thinking they should be fine.
What are your gardening plans for the weekend??? I am going to try to keep going with getting the main veggie garden planted. Plus weeding, plus kitty watching, pig watering, egg gathering....lots to do here!
Oh and I have my meat bird chicks coming next Wednesday, so I have a few more brooder related things to get finished on the weekend. Fun times!
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We Do have sunflowers! I guess they were just waiting to grow! The Gman tied them up yesterday afternoon....now I can sit on the porch and stare at them.....
The Main Garden....we've been cleaning it out bit by bit. I have been pulling the beans and hanging them in the Greenhouse to dry the pods. 
This yellow plant is called Globe Thistle, says the neighbour who gave it to me. The white plant beside it is some type of Baby's Breath. These two plants have been blooming for months! Solid months of colour!!
Took these the other day.....flower bed at the bottom of the porch steps...
Poppies starting to bloom
Tiger Lilies...so pretty!
Pinks in the bed alongside the Greenhouse
Virgina Creeper making a vertical move down at the barn - come Fall, this should turn brilliant red.
#1 greenhouse....tomatoes are coming on very nicely. Of course, everything needs to be weeded, but that won't happen for awhile.
The Main Veggie Garden.....
Potatoes....you can see where they got hit by the frost 2 weeks ago. Luckily, there was enuf green growth on there still for them to keep growing.
The upper right of the main garden....from left to right - carrots, turnips, spinach, beets, chard.
Carrots - they ended up being sparser than I hoped. I did them with the seeder, so am not sure if I didn't have it set right or what happened.
Beans growing like crazy, after a slow start....all that rain, plus several hot days was just what they needed.
Cabbages - with my Birkenstock in there to give an idea of the size of the cabbages.
Broccoli starting to develop their heads
Long shot of the Broccoli row....all the leaves off these veggies will end up going to the animals to eat.
Onions with Sugar Snap Peas behind. The onions got nailed in the big wind the other day...some of the greens are broken right off. 
Collards - anyone out there with a good recipe for these? We don't know how to cook them. We tried them steamed....
Zuccini - the row cover has been taken off for the next couple of days, as it's supposed to stay warm overnight (ditto for the beans)
Zuccini starting to fruit.
Lettuce
Alaska Peas in bloom now....these are growing around the garden perimeter
A far off view of the Animal Garden
Potatoes in the Barn Garden. They've been hilled, but looks like the chickweed is getting out of hand! Maybe I'll try to pen some hens in there for an afternoon, they'd probably do some weeding for us. (Too much work around here for humans right now)
Animal Garden (with pig house in background) is looking more lush every day.
Mangels (that need thinning)
Sugar Beet - this is one I started earlier indoors. Check out the white root on it! 
Lots and lotsa Carrots! And a pig in the background....
More mangels, sugar beets, red beets and rutabagas.....
