Black Snake Homestead: April Flowers!

Well, all those seedlings in the last post got eaten by the cats. Who knew?? Cats like broccoli seedlings. But that's ok, because there's no shortage of stuff that Ash has planted...

Annuals: lettuce, kale, beets, radish, turnips, carrot, onions, potatoes, strawberries. Tomatoes and basil are in trays.

Perennials: wild blue indigo (ground cover), viola johnny jump up (ground cover, tastes like vanilla mint), stinging nettle (highly nutritive and a soil builder), peppermint, comfrey, giant solomon's seal, dandelion (I know, who PLANTS this on purpose?? Permaculture farmers, that's who), french sorrel, wildflowers, chamomile, pawpaw tree (sweet fruit)

Plans for: cucumber, asparagus

Everything looks so green and springy around here!! There are several special little flowers blooming all over the place. The tall, weedy grass has been replaced by lovely ground cover things, like clover, dandelion, violets, and wild onions. Most of this happened all on it's own... I'm very impressed that nature knows what we're trying to do and is working with us to increase the diversity of our field. Half of the wild stuff that has appeared is edible.

Here are the greens coming up.

Here is the comfrey, which was nothing a week ago.

That pear tree that was eaten by a deer over the winter looks lovely again!

In other news, we have a wonderful new tool shed. Our friend Greg at Carolina Cob designed and built it with his business partner at DBDB, Dylan. Here are some photos of the shed as it was being built... I have a lot more detailed photos if anyone is interested. The chicken wire wrapped around it will be for the cob plaster layer to cling to.