New Life, New Buds

The other day it was unseasonably warm in Vermont. I took a walk outside to look at our gardens.

What a joy to see signs of new life, after a long COVID winter. By mid-May, this tree will be covered with white blossoms.

I've learned not to pull out the last of the kale plants in Autumn. So already I am beginning to see new growth this season, way before I'll be getting new kale seeds in the ground. The first kale leaf is emerging.

Daffodils have a way of increasing and multiplying. Each year I have more of them from the few I've planted years ago. 

Last year I had a "mystery plant" growing in the garden, something I did not plant but somehow sprung up from the soil. It turned out to be a hybrid of delicata squash. This year there's another mystery plant. There are about five of them in the bed. To me they look like strawberry plants, but could be some kind of weed. Time will tell. Maybe strawberries were in the compost? or the birds dropped them on the soil last year? Mystery!

And one more bud - this one from indoors. It's on one of the tomato plants in my Aerogarden. The plants are covered with blossoms, so I hope to have cherry tomatoes before long. Even without the tomatoes, it's been fun watching the plants growing indoors while many of the days outside have been pretty bleak.

 Spring has truly arrived!