The weekend went by too quickly, as usual. A grey, rainy day today, with rain and a little hail. So no gardening today. I was a seriously sleepy Mommy this morning — the bed was so nice and warm, and my brain was so set on finishing its REM sleep….
Apologies to all, by the way, for the severe lack of content in my recent blogs. It seems like it’s been garden, garden, garden, quiz, cute baby story (cute to me, anyway), garden, quiz, garden, garden. (My husband is also asking “aren’t you done with that thing yet?” although he was asking that after the first weekend’s work…) I’m psyched about the garden because this is the first time I’ve really planned one out instead of just sticking things in the ground. Anyway, I’m not done with “that thing” yet, but I should be done soon. We finished installing the mow strip this weekend. I also am about halfway through double-digging the northwest bed (future home of tomatoes and — I hope — eggplant.) I’ll have one more bed to dig and then the heavy work will be over — hooray!
On Saturday the nursery got some rhubarb in. I ended up planting four roots in what is now a dedicated rhubarb bed. How I hope they take! I also put in some garlic, with more to go in once I get the third bed finished.
Last week, I also tried starting some seeds indoors. So far some of the marigolds have started to sprout. No movement from the eggplant seeds, though. As for the outside beds, I see the first little sprouts of mesclun peeking above the soil.
Keeping Hambet out of the garden has been a real challenge. I’ve tried telling him all about the baby seeds (say that in your best little kid voice: baaaaaaaaaaaby seeeds!!!) and how we let the baby seeds sleep in the ground. I thought that was working, but last night, when I showed the indoor seedlings to my husband, Hambet got so excited about the baaaaaaaaaby flowers that he snatched one right out of the dirt to show Daddy.