I don’t care for Fruitless Pear trees, but they are pretty when in bloom.

Pansies and dianthus on the first day of spring.

A Swiss Chard harvest on March 18th. These were boiled for 5 minutes and the water drained (to reduce oxalates). Then they were returned to the pan and sauteed with garlic in olive oil with some red pepper flakes and garbanzo beans (at end).

A pretty Gavota tulip. It was nice to see this tulip, since several of them that tried to bloom a few weeks earlier during the Texas snow apocalypse were damaged.

Create ready-to-eat individual salads when you have too much harvest from your garden and want to encourage your family to eat more salads. If you don’t have plastic containers, just put the salad in a zip lock sandwich bag. Then it can be emptied into a bowl when ready to eat.

A few of the tatsoi plants were allowed to bloom for the bees and to make seeds for the next fall/winter garden. The flowers are covered in bees.

The weather has been so warm that my winter lettuce has reached the bolting (making flowers/seeds), point of no return. So, I had to harvest any that had not started to elongate (start to make a flower stalk). I left 2 plants of each variety to make seeds for next year.

One of three baskets of lettuce that was harvested. I love this Garden Collander. It is large, roomy, and vegetables can be washed in it before bringing them into the house. This helps to insure that dirt and bugs stay outside.

Washed lettuce and onions from the March 13th harvest.

Cute little Tom Thumb heads of lettuce from the March 14th harvest.