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<\/a><\/p>\nImage<\/strong><\/em>: Our old greenhouse where it used to sit on our deck in Prince Rupert.<\/p>\n For the last two years, our greenhouse has been sitting in a big green plastic box, waiting to be reassembled.\u00a0 It’s not large, or fancy, just a 6′ x 8′ polycarbonate kit, good enough to start plants and grow some winter greens.\u00a0 But it has history.\u00a0 It used to sit on the deck of our house in Prince Rupert, where we used it as a sun room, breakfast nook, and a place to grow some of the sweetest cherry tomatoes.\u00a0 When we decided to go wild, we spent a day carefully dissembling a kit that was never meant to be taken apart again, repacking it in its shipping crate, and ultimately, hauling it in the herring skiff to our new home. It’s been waiting patiently ever since.\u00a0 Felt good to get it up, and even put a few plants in it.<\/p>\n We’ve been cleaning up the yard, re-organizing it for the summer (hoping for a cessation of rain) to come.\u00a0 This involved moving all our 55 gallon blue barrels that we use for water storage, locating them further uphill from the gardens (gravity is our friend) and closer to the roof\/water collection system.\u00a0 With the creek still running, and the new dam in place, we can easily fill them with water from a hose.\u00a0 While the dam is full, we’ll also have water to irrigate the garden with, if necessary.<\/p>\n Talking about spring … is it ever late this year!\u00a0 Beltane, or Mayday as it is sometimes called (May 1st<\/sup>), just passed, and the first blossoms on our plum tree outside the window opened.\u00a0 Looking back to last year,the blossoms were out on March 30th<\/sup>, a month earlier.\u00a0 However, the yard is now full of pink bleeding hearts and a contrasting blue patch of forget-me-nots that showed up last year, and the hillside is a mass of blossoms, white elder flowers and pink salmonberry.\u00a0 A reminder that I must get some elder flower cordial brewed up!!<\/p>\n