March gardening in Trillium Woods

by ~ irene
(Foothills of Mt. Rainier, WA)

Our farmstead, Trillium Woods, is located in the foothills of Mount Rainier, about 30 miles from the west entrance to Mt. Rainier National Park.

We're having an El Nino spring, which means warmer and drier than most years. The sugar snap peas are in, and all the alliums planted last fall are doing well. I just weeded them and gave them a sprinkle of composted chicken manure.

I finished pruning roses and am in the middle of separating clumps of perennials for replanting hither and yon.

Today I'll set out the fava beans I'd started earlier in small pots, plant beets under cover, and finish weeding the other vegetable beds.

Native flowering red currant is in bloom as is the forsythia and winter jasmine. Lots of daffodils, crocus and windflowers blooming.

More birds at the feeders by the day. Plenty of activity around the beehive with bees returning from wild nut trees laden with bright yellow pollen.

New growth beginning on the raspberries and blueberry buds are swelling.

Lovely time of year!