#haustas

Stuffs a growin'

Things are starting to pop off in the gobbo garden.

Except you know, after a week or so of positive temps and lots of rain, we got dunked on with like an inch an and a half of snow. 🙃 Which is like nothing for Canada, but it's made me worry that all this early growth is going to be ruined since it's stuck around for a couple days.

I mean, I'm not worried about the catnip at all, because that shit was already growing under the winter snow, but other stuff might be less hearty.

I'm particularly stressed about the peony plant that I finally relocated last year. I was genuinely so happy to see tiny little spikes popping up. I have no idea if this cold snap is going to hurt that, or even if the plant will bloom in this new spot, but I really hope it does.

Some of the haustas were already coming in too! Specifically the miniture haustas back by the raspberries, and the giant haustas by the catnip. The ones in the lily garden (also where the peony is now) didn't have any pokey bits yet, that I'd seen.

The day lilies are (unsurprisingly) already going ham.

I'd like to be able to make sure the poppies grow inside the dang cage this year, so I have to keep a close eye on them now too. (and get the weeds out of the mix.)

And last for this update, I learned that rhubarb looks like weird alien nonsense when it starts growing in. Steven said it looked like egg sacks, I said brains. 🤷‍♀️