My computer has been acting up lately, making anything more than using twitter, @JessicaPbees, a bit of a pain. Back in working order, I have got some catching up to do.

 The weather has been fantastic, even the rainy days, for gardening and I have really been quite busy. Today and tomorrow I am focusing on giving the garden a really good weeding as these damp days with damp soil are truly best for pulling weeds successfully. We have been eating lots of kale, arugula, cilantro, spinach, scallions, radishes, pak choi, swiss

chard, fiddleheads, corn salad or mache, asparagus, rhubarb, chives, lemongrass,
lettuces and we were eating dandelion greens but they're too large and bitter
now. 

We have kohlrabi, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, more kale, carrots, potatoes, peas, more spinach, more lettuces, swiss chard, beets, parsnips, ruatabagas and onions all germinated in the garden, although they're not much to look at right now so I didn't take too many pictures. We also transplanted the onions we started indoors from seed into the garden and are starting to harden off some plants and herbs to go live in the cold frame until they're ready to be planted when the soil warms even more. 

 Here's a quick pictorial update to show some of the gardening I have been up to. The lighting wasn't the world's best today for plant pictures, although they turned out all right. 

Hardening off my petunias. These don't look like much now, especially when compared to what the nurseries have to offer, however these will last long into the fall, until frost completely kills them before they even start looking too tired. 

Lots of lemon balm. I am always snacking on or just grabbing leaves of this to smell while gardening. 

Viola. 

My white bleeding heart has been blooming for awhile now. So unique. 

One of my many hostas. 

One of my smaller alliums not quite in full bloom yet. My largest allium, Globemaster, decided to poke up extra early this year and was killed by frost. Not sure what will happen to it next year, it may need to be replaced. 

Woodland hyacinth. 

Our new shady bed for our alpine strawberries started from seed. 

My first ever rhododendron, bought just down the road from where I live. It's love and I'm, of course, already wishing I had bought two.  

63 new strawberry plants added to the excisting strawberry bed. Mind not that my foundation is only partially painted, it's on the to-do list. 

Green strawberries, forming before ripening. 

A patch of thickly sown baby leaf mesclun mix. One of my favourite, most versatile lettuces. Makes great salads and garnish, we use it everywhere. 

New radishes inter-planted with leaf lettuce. It is thought in companion planting that inter-planting radishes with lettuce improves the lettuces flavour. 

New kale in the cold frame. Planted in very early spring. 

New scallions planted in front of the old scallions in the cold frame. 

Corn salad in the cold frame planted beside some parsley you can see in the bottom right corner. 

Pea trellis number one. 

The second pea trellis. 

Freshly trimmed and transplanted onions seedlings you can hardly see. 

My first ever azalea. I think these lovely yellowish blooms should open shortly. Also love at first sight and already wishing I had bought another. I may try and propagate this and the rhodo, as I know a lot of people have success with this.   

New black currant bush. I'll never forgive myself for leaving a black currant on a rental property down the road from where I live now that my grandmother had given me. I have even thought about going back to see if it's still alive on several occasions. 

Our new rhubarb patch. This was thriving until something, I'm assuming it may have been a bear, dug up one entire rhubarb plant and ate it, roots and all. It then proceeded to tear and rip apart the leaves of the other rhubarb plants it had left alone until I'm assuming my dog scared it away or it had it's fill. 

Tore up leaves. It even bit into this stalk in several places rendering it unusable. 

To end on a sunny note, this red bleeding heart brightens up shady corners like this one by my chicken shed.