i'm not sure i have anything interesting to say today but i have not posted in a few days so i feel like i should check in.
The weather was AMAZING last weekend and i got my garden boxes put back into shape for the season. Here are the before and after pictures but i'm not sure you can tell the difference.
In the other box, i planted lettuce, Walla Walla onions, radishes, and peas. P is doing the hard work of tilling up the front yard and i will plant corn. Don't get me wrong, i am not taking out grass to plant corn. There is a large space between our front doors that was overgrown with old bushes and such. It had basically become a weed patch. The problem with it was that the bushes had gnarly root balls that were really hard to get out, as well as, layers of plastic weed blocker. He is prepping it on the promise that i will grow corn (and pumpkins between the rows of corn). i would normally not grow corn because it takes too much space for too few ears, but i would do just about anything to get that patch cleaned up.
This weekend the weather is not going to be so cooperative, so i will start my cucumber indoors. i plan to grow cucs, beans and carrots in the box pictured above. i had good luck with cantalope last year so i'm going to try them again in the ends of the raspberry boxes. With sunflowers galore in the corner patch, i ought to keep busy all summer.
i got a picture of this butterfly that looked freshly hatched from it cocoon. The body was still fuzzy and i followed it around for awhile until it's wings dried and it flew away.
Later chickies and roos!
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