Garden Pics (About Time, Too)

Posted on Wednesday 6 June 2007 at 11:38

Due to the mysterious disappearance of my camera's rechargeable batteries for several months (I recently found them stashed in some crockery on top of the microwave), I haven't taken many garden pictures yet. No apple blossom shots this year, but that's okay--they kinda look the same every year. In about another five, I'll post pics of how the trees are doing.

Last night, I set the seedlings outside with a feeling of minor panic. I hadn't really given much thought to hardening them off--too busy putting seeds in the ground. So I tidied up around the compost bins, which didn't get used last year, and were overrun by my nemesis, quackgrass. I set an old piece of half-rotten plywood on top for shade. The plants are getting light through all sides, the east being completely open.

There are the brassicae (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage), standing up and waving happily in the light breeze as the steady drizzle of rain waters them. Now I just have to keep those useless kittens from sleeping on them.

Okay, so there's still no actual clam photo. Maybe if I go to the east coast.