The weather is definitely getting more unpredictable around here. One day I'm sweating and wearing shorts, the next I'm back in my winter coat! If I'm not happy with this I don't think some of the plants in my garden are either. I noticed that seeds were slow to germinate, probably because of the colder temperatures. Fortunately, we did get lots of rain. The plants prefer rain water over the chlorinated water from the hose or tap. The lettuce, radish and peas are all doing well with the colder temps. The two container blueberry plants are producing lots of berries which I am hoping the greedy mockingbird doesn't find before we get to them. The blueberries liked spending the winter outside and produced lots of flowers and the bumblebees couldn't seem to get enough of them. The poor tomatoes, apricots and basil are not thriving in this cold. Seeing your breath in the cold on Memorial Day weekend is kinda odd. Next time I'll cover the flowers here in the city garden. Pictured below is the tiny garden's progress...

Here are a few views of my city garden's progress

Hooray!!
It's finally warm and windless enough to work outside. The winds for the last week or so put a damper on trying to plant seeds. But, at last, today is a decent day to add soil and plant a few seeds. Here are a few current garden residents:
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Yellow Pansy

Tiny yellow daffodils

Cat Guarding the Garden

It's been a long winter and we can't wait to see it end. Thing was, it wasn't all that cold again. About two snowstorms this year of any real significance. This year the orchids have been pretty dormant, having been moved and just now starting to have buds on them.

Swiss Chard has been growing outside in the raised box with the help of plastic when it got below freezing. We dispensed with the coldframe and just had kale and chard growing outside in the box.

Here is a shot of one of the winter bay window dwellers