Two weeks ago we visited Tomatomania once again and got 10 different tomato varieties this time. Because I couldn't eat the tomatoes last year, we ended up buying a few of the varieties once again. Hopefully this time I don't have to enjoy the tomatoes vicariously through my students.
In the past month the raspberries and strawberry plants have exploded into joyous greenery - hopefully this translates into more than two berries at a time!
Dave was excited to discover that, after planting his asparagus last year and patiently waiting, he now has ONE skinny stalk (~0.5 cm diameter, if that). You have no idea how hard it is to photograph something so thin...
Ok, so it's time to get started once again - this time we want to have better soil. The stuff we purchased last year (which was supposed to be primo soil for fruits and veggies) has the consistency of concrete...
So we got a bunch of bags of steer manure (not as stinky as we thought it might be), excavated some old soil, and mixed the new stuff in.
And then did a little planting.
We convinced our gnome to sign another contract to protect the berries -he seemed pretty happy about it. Not sure if the bird in his hand wants to sit there all summer again, though:
