Welcome 2021

 

We are a few days into 2021 and mornings are frosty. 

The vegetable garden is asleep for the winter except for a few broccoli plants. 

I couldn't resist harvesting what was available for a dinner stir-fry. 

And, speaking of broccoli...a few months ago I emptied the Stargazer lily bulbs from the pots on the lakeside patio. These purple pots bloom all summer with annuals and lilies. After five years, the lily bulbs had multiplied and I could harvest many bulbs and bulbils to plant in other places. In the process, I lost some soil and replaced it from my extra-dirt pile kept in the flower garden. That pile is an accumulation of soil from various locations as well as emptied planters and pots. Surprise! Somehow, soil from an area where the first crop of broccoli went to seed got into my dirt pile and then into my Stargazer lily pots. See the third pot? Those aren't flowers coming up, that is broccoli!