Rock cress, phlox, potentilla, candy tuft, and spring tulips are brighting up the spring landscape. The leaves are coming on trees right now. The weather is finally warm and springy. The grass is vigorously growing, it’s almost too late to plant spring crops and about time to plant annual flowers and all the summer veggies.

The past week was spent beautifying the landscape. My husband was between semesters in school, which was the perfect timing to send him to work. We cleaned up the compost pile, mowed and trimmed, planted potatoes, and built a fence around the community garden. One big project that took us longer than anticipated was getting the irrigation system up and running. We had to replaced quite a few heads, and I was pretty amazed at all the shortcuts/things wrong with the system. There are spray heads and rotors on the same zone, areas devoid of head to head coverage or even without any coverage, heads spraying the hard scape, areas in need of a pressure regulator, and a lack of uniformity in the type of head. I just finished up an irrigation design class, so the mistakes in design are very blaring to me. But there is a lot worse out there as well and the system does irrigated.

I also sprayed some of the expansive grass with glyphosate. I loved doing that. Spraying is the easiest way to get rid of weeds: I’m not giving it up anytime soon regardless of any desire I have to be more green in my garden. I love the ease of glyphosate, and not a huge fan of hours of hand weeding.

I love how spring unfolds in the garden: it really is the best time of year.