Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day 15 February 2010

Here it is, Bloom Day, all over again. Most of the things in my yard that are trying to bloom are weeds, but I have a few things actually blooming (or very nearly so!) today.

• Ribes sanguineum (Pink-Flowering Currant, above, a CA Native)
• Mimulus aurantiacus (Sticky Monkeyflower, above, a CA Native)
• Pink Geranium
• White-flowering Solanum
• Purple-flowering Solanum
• Impatiens
• Rose
• Jade Plant
• Daffodil
• Calendula
• Paper White Narcissus
• Snap Peas (I've been harvesting these off and on through the winter, yum!)
• Bok Choy 

Wait! Bok choy isn't supposed to bloom! Oh, yeah. It does if you haven't harvested it all before it gets that far.

I ate quite a bit of bok choy this winter, but I had sowed the seed SO thickly that I just couldn't keep up on three tubs full of rampantly growing bok choy. Important note for next year: One tub, thinly-sown, should be enough for one person. Use the other two tubs for succession crops of something else like carrots, beets, or spinach.

Oh, and I need to harvest my first cabbage real soon!