Pulling back the leaf cover, revealing the start of plant life outside the Greenhouse, Cold Hoop House and Cold Frames.. Not much yet but even those first hints of greens are wonderful..
I see that the feverfew is already up and starting to have new leaves coming.
Lily’s are starting to put our new leaves and Periwinkle are have new little green leaves coming up all over this bed, as they are my ground cover.
I was checking my spruce tree’s to see how their new growth on tips is coming along, as I am waiting to be able to do my spring harvest, and I spotted a bit of dark green and when I pushed back the grass, I saw this little baby.. our first baby spruce from our big tree’s! We have kept the area around the tree’s hand trimmed but mainly wild in the hopes that this would happen. This little one will grow about a foot a year, and we will get it transplanted into our spruce row later this spring.
Just another Day on the Farm 
Can I ask what you mean about the spring harvest – the spruce trees?? I came across a sweet syrup in Finland that was made from, or flavoured from, spruce trees – I really liked it, but haven’t come across it anywhere else since. No idea how it was made. I just wondered if you make something similar from your spruce trees?
Hi RJ
Lots of coming post on this as I share recipes on different things I do with it, including a sweet syrup, but just to give a touch of the basics here for you, I am waiting for the fresh green buds to come out, they are forming, but you want them to be 3/4 their full size, “just” starting to shed their brown papery caps, they will be soft, and very light green at their idea picking time and then I will have fun showing all the different things you can do with them for use during the rest of the year.
I can’t wait to see that baby with Christmas lights hanging off it on my 65th year.
Let’s mark it somehow and we’ll celebrate that year with fruitcake and sherry?