Garden in April

This blog post is for everybody (Christine, Jen, and anybody else!) who I recently told about the spinach that I planted last fall, which survived the winter. I took this picture a few weeks ago, and the spinach -- nestled among some straw, which I put down as mulch last fall -- didn't look too bad.

In the past few weeks, the spinach has rebounded even more; I have a few patches of it growing in the garden, and some kind of wild critters ate some that was in an unfenced area.

As well, in the past few days I spied new growth -- finally, the peas that I sowed the weekend before St. Patrick's Day are starting to appear.

It seems like it's been a chilly spring, and right now it's wet and cold outside. But the temperature is supposed to go up this weekend, and I hope to finally get out in the garden and enjoy it...!