Super Greens

I planted peas Sunday afternoon. I also started repotting tomato seedlings. I am very pleased with how things are looking in the greenhouse. Some time this week, I need to get out and prune fruit trees.

The husband bought this at the auction this past weekend:

I am so excited. He bought it because he thought it would be useful when we butcher chickens—which it will—but I asked him if I could have it in the garden for the summer. It will come in handy for cleaning and washing off produce.

Other women desire diamonds and pearls. A good stainless steel table makes my heart beat faster. 😂

I took a walk around the garden after I finished planting peas. I continue to be amazed at what survived the winter under the snow. More lettuce:

A few collard plants made it. This is a cold-hardy variety, but still—that doesn’t mean anything in Montana.

Collards are technically biennials, so I am not sure if I will be able to harvest the leaves off of them this season or if they will head straight for flowering and seed heads, but it will be interesting to find out. Maybe they will be like parsnips. I planted those once, about eight years ago, and every year I find them in odd places in the garden.

This is why I am not always in a rush to pull out plants at the end of the season. One never knows what might come up in the spring.

And the poppies are in a hurry to get going:

I need to move these over to the herb garden.

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My mother got her robe yesterday, although it took from Wednesday to Monday to travel from Montana to Cleveland via Priority Mail. 😑 She said it fit “just right.”

I have the Free Range Slacks pattern and plan to start those today. The quilt store had a bolt of some really lovely denim in a lighter weight, so I’m making the store sample from that fabric. (I should have taken a photo of the end of the bolt.) Before I traced the slacks pattern, I laid the Linda pants pattern from Style Arc over the pieces to compare them. The two patterns were close enough in size and shape that I didn’t alter the Free Range Slacks pieces. I really need to know how the originally-drafted pattern was intended to fit so I know what changes the students might need. This is why garment classes aren’t just a matter of “Come in and learn how to sew this top (or pants)!” It does no good to learn how to sew a garment if the end result isn’t going to fit.