These are the Sugar Snap peas on the fence. Also on this fence is shelling peas. Planted under the soaker hose is the pole beans "Violet's Multicolored Butterbeans" that I grow and sell seed to the Seed Savers in VA. They will take over when the Sugar Snaps die in late May.

See the bumper crop of spinach that I planted last fall. Yum! Past the spinach is the kale that has bolted. I leave it for the bees to gather from.

Here is bed #10 full of garlic from my crop last year and a few in the front right that I ordered from Johnny's. The bed on the left will be planted in pole beans on teepee poles with cucumbers between and marigolds all around. Nanking cherry bushes are in the bed on the left.

The strawberries have lots of blooms and green berries. We will have a good crop in about two weeks.

This is our new pool at Windmill Hill. It isn't very deep, nor is it clean, but it will not drain out for hours!

I needed to extend my short bed, and I knew the shovel wouldn't go into the dirt here as it existed since time immemorial. So, with great effort and horsepower, the tractor was able to scoop about three inches out. I put the hose in and filled up the trench. In about two hours, it had soaked into the hardpan. Then, the tractor scooped out another three inches or so. This picture was taken after I filled it up again. This was an hour later! Tomorrow we will take the pickax after it to loosen the bottom. Ugh!

The other picture is the sprinklers trying to coax the carrots seeds into germinating. Isn't it pretty in the late afternoon light. In the foreground, buckwheat has come up all in the broccoli bed. No problem.