First little tomato

Our tomato plant is producing its first tomato :)

Hosta undulata mediovariegata

Those mysterious flowers on our yard are, apparently, hosta undulatas. In Finnish they are kirjokuunliljoja, which literally translated would be striped moon lilies.

Windy day

It was a very windy day, the birches bending sideways in the wind and even the small purple clover on our yard was fluttering.

Doin' some gardening

It was raining in the morning and it started raining again some time in the afternoon, but we got a good couple huors of garden work in in between. We transplanted our basils and zucchinis and green pepper, and planted some more dill and spinach - my husband finally revealed that the mystery crop there was spinach - and some beans and sweet peas.

Zucchinis with our onion bed in the background

Basil

The "mystery crop", turned out to be spinach

Blossoms

Out for an evening stroll with my daughter, I photographed a blooming hedge, the blossoms on our neighbor's cherry tree and a peculiarly purple maple!

Today I noticed the first strawberry blossoms on our yard, unfortunately though right by the driveway, instead of the backyard. But they'll bloom too, eventually, I'm sure.

Dandelion horta

We were weeding our yard and pulling out all those dandelions from the lawn, when we decided to make use of them. So I cleaned a bunch of them out and we cooked a pot full of "horta" of them. Thoroughly rinsed and topped off with olive oil and lemon juice, very good!

Squirrel

A squirrel enjoying the plentiful cones of the fir tree on our neighbor's yard.

A squirrel

First tulip on our yard

Elsewhere the tulipa have been blooming for some time already, but our first tulip opened its flower just today :)

Tulip

Zucchinis

The first zucchini sprout. Picture from sunday, now the leavesmare already triple the size and new ones are coming out. Four other zucchinis have popped out of their seeds already, too.

Zucchini

Update on our garden

Onions are growing, basil seeds have sprouted, as have the first zuccinis. Medina chili is already producing its first chili pepper, and the tomato has its first flowers. Strawberries are growing at the edge of the salad, spring onion and garlic bed (where so far only garlics have their heads out of the ground).

Onions, tomato and chili blossoms, strawberries

The newest addition to our little garden is a green pepper plant.

Green pepper