Observations.

New things I noticed in the garden yesterday: my pink dogwood is coming into leaf and flower, my carrots and beets are sending up little shoots already! Oh, and someone stomped on one of my more promising raspberry canes 😦 I suspect that was an angry friend who stormed in and out of my backyard with her bicycle the night before and it made me a little unhappy despite all the other abundance poking through.

Plans for this weekend include: building two more cold frames so I can get my tomatoes and peppers outside soon, planting some cabbage seed since my starts all failed (too much heat I think), doing more yard clean-up, and building a ladder for the outdoor studio-loft. At some point I’ve got to get into the frontyard as well and clean-up the beds. I’ve got some shasta daisies to throw down out there somewhere as well, since my backyard has no room for heavily spreading plants no matter how much I love them.

I am noting nighttime temperatures all above 7 degrees for the next week, which means that it’s almost time for my earliest tomatoes to go in the ground. I’m thinking that I’ll cover one of my tomato beds with black plastic for the next week to get it warmed up since these plants are going in so much earlier than feels right.

Each year it’s hard to imagine the changes from one week to the next. That my garden right now is so much more lush than it was a month ago and in another month again it will be bursting with growth and taking its own shape. That is the miracle of gardening after all isn’t it? The excitements and disappointments day by day. The life and death dance of all things green and beautiful.