After having a chance to cool off a bit and re-evaluate the garden situation, I felt like I’d been a bit hasty in declaring the garden a failure. I checked the growing time on some of my seed packets last night, and a couple of plants seemed like they may yet be harvestable this season [...]

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Gardening isn’t going exactly as planned. We had a fantastic enthusiastic labour-intensive kickoff with lots of healthy seedlings going into well-prepared dirt. For the first few weeks things were growing well, our beans were about to fruit and our squash were flowering. And then suddenly with all the rain the pest population exploded and now [...]

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We had a little brown visitor this morning in our back yard, taking nibbles off our tulip leaves and dandelions (can you believe they’re yellow already? In April?) which probably taste of vinegar from Natasha’s latest experiments in green weed-killing alchemy. The neighborhood stray cat has been on patrol lately, but I haven’t seen him [...]

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