Got the veggies in!
It’s always a shame that the end of the school year coincides with so much of the gardening that needs to be done at the beginning of our fairly short but enthusiastic season. Thus it was (and all too often is) that I finally got the veggie seeds in the ground, although arguably a wee bit later than I would have preferred in a perfect world. On the other hand, I would probably tend to put a lot of things in too early if circumstances allowed, so perhaps it’s just as well.
All that said, today I finished planting this year’s vegetable seeds. A motley and strange assortment of basil, cilantro, peas, beans, sweet corn, and winter squash. I’ve only done sweet corn here once before, and that was years ago, so it’ll be interesting to see how that goes. It’s also been ages since I tried winter squash, so that’s a bit of an experiment as well. Everything this year is starting from seed (all from the excellent folks at Cook’s Garden), which is a bit chancy with our short-ish season, but hopefully all will go well.
I dug in something close to 10 gallons of nice home-made compost in the process, and scared myself witless at one point. I was scooping compost from the composter we used for the finished stuff into my nifty rubber gardening pail, and the ground below me blinked! It turned out to be a toad that had buried himself in the bit of spilled compost that had collected in front of the composter. I took a bunch of pictures of him, and I’ll most more about that experience later!
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April 28th, 2007 at 09:38
Love your veggie and garden pictures. What camera are you using to take them?
Please also see my gardening site at http://www.homegardenguides.com/wiki/Growing_vegetables an encyclopedia on gardening.
cheers