I’ve been eating asparagus like a mad woman. One picking is a significant amount of food. My original patch is easily 30 years old and covered in my arch nemesis mugwort, but is still producing like crazy.

The peonies have budded. It’s just a matter of time. Do not pull soil or mulch up too closely to them. They like a bare bottom for maximum bloom.

The Darwins are the tulip of choice for you. They are blooming right now and will do so for years to come depending, of course, on Bambi and his family.

Brrr . . . what a chilly weekend, but typical of spring on the Vineyard. We get a few days of sun and warmth as a little tease followed by a reminder that we are out here in a cold ocean. Remember, this phenomenon is in our favor in the fall.

One plus to the cooler temperatures — the spring bulbs last longer.

I have some opium poppies, bachelor buttons and nigella coming up in the vegetable garden. If I did not know them, they would get raked up with the debris and weeds.

Here it is Palm Sunday and my forsythia is beginning to show some yellow. I have no facts, but it seems particularly late.