Every year I panic waiting for the asparagus to come up. I’m sure that it won’t come up or that I sprayed too late for weeds and killed everything accidentally. This year the weather has stayed cooler and spears came up about 10 days later than usual.
But they’re here now. I went out this morning and did a second cutting. Look at how gorgeous these are:
Martha Washington and Jersey Supreme. I don’t know which is which :-)
Years before we put in the asparagus bed, I made a recipe for spring asparagus with biscuits and chicken I found on the asparagus growers website. Jared and the kids loved it, and it’s become a family traditionnfor at least 15 years now — so long that the website doesn’t even seem to exist anymore.
The recipe is essentially a white sauce with cooked chicken and fresh asparagus served over biscuits. I’m still laid up after my wrist surgery, but my culinarily-gifted seventeen year-old daughter will be able to make it, I’m sure.
I also cut the microgreens I planted outside two weeks ago. I don’t think I’d do this out of doors again — the weeds are mixing in with them and bugs have eaten some of the little plants — but we are excited to garnish our traditional meal with the microgreens. These are a “mild” mix that I got from Johnny’s,but I think they are still pretty peppery.
Microgreens patch 
Closeup. That’s spinach I also interplanted with the greens to see what would happen. 
I left the spinach and a few kohlrabi to see what would happen. 
Trimmed microgreens 
Closeup of Johnny’s mild microgreens mix. Includes mizuna, cabbage, kale, and kohlrabi.
The roses and irises are looking good. I have asparagus volunteers coming up all over the place because we did not harvest or clean up as much as we should have last year. I don’t mind too much — those skinny spears make a fantastic treat, even when several feet tall!
My sailboat daffodil and grape hyacinth “river” bloomed and is dying back. 
Irises will be in bloom by next week. 
The New Dawn rose bush I cut back so aggressively is looking great!
