Our cute little garden helper was freely picking blossoms this week, including by the handful off the peach tree! (This may be one drawback of having a barely-four-foot-tall dwarf peach tree.) She beheaded tulips and daffodils left and right, pulled hyacinths up so hard she got the bulb too, and collected dandelions by the armful (that part is ok by me!). We had to have a few discussions about not picking all of mom's flowers, and to leave them growing in the garden. The message hasn't quite sunken in, as this morning she picked several daffodils and then, flinging them into a hole and covering them with a shovel full of dirt, informed me they were her buried treasure! Arrgghh!

Indoors, our first batch of seedlings is off to a great start. (These include marigold, zinnia, sunflower, and cabbage.)

My husband and son helped me move a few plants around. I decided to simplify my earlier plan of companion planting under the fruit trees by putting only one type of plant under each tree. They helped me move the chives under the nectarine tree, the sorrel under the plum, the culinary thyme under the apple, and the salad burnet under the pear tree. The salad burnet was harder to dig out than I thought. It has very thick, vast, tenacious roots. But, it has a great fresh cucumber flavor; it is a great plant for the garden.