I spent about 6 days in the city looking about as excited as Elaine with her rubber pencil, daydreaming about the garden. I couldn’t wait to get back home! We got a few solid days of rain, and boy did it make the plants happy. I came home to find the garden looking like this:

^ Soy beans

^ Strawberries already!

^ Flowering wisteria

^ The enclosure and the levels are filling up

^ Peas!

^ Cucumber, zucchini and squash starters that need to go into the ground soon

^ The basil has been transferred to a pot to keep them from drying out, and those tomato plants were just seedlings only a few weeks ago!

^ Butter lettuce waiting eagerly for it’s shady planter in the garden, and some other wee starters

^ My chai tea obsession provides homes for our chilli pepper seedlings

^ The sun room looks like this now, we need more shelves!

The planters under the lower level windows are slowly growing some flowers

^ Lemon boy tomatoes

^ Kale and broccoli

^ Lemon balm seedlings are growing

^ THE POTATOES. I swear these grew overnight

^ Black currant with calendula

^ Thyme and sage. The sage had a white fungus on it a few days ago, so I picked off the affected leaves and covered them with a glass frame to keep the rain off for a bit. It seems to have solved the problem.

^ Cilantro

^ WE WILL HAVE MINT FOREVER Part 1

^ WE WILL HAVE MINT FOREVER Part 2

^ Rosemary

^ Oregano, catnip, raspberries and rhubarb (the rhubarb will likely take over this planter and we will have to move the smaller plants)

^ More strawberries

^ Cabbage

^ Those chamomile seedlings we thought we had killed in the too-hot sun room are coming back

^ More cilantro

^ Raspberries

^ Fennel

PHEW. It’s going to be a crazy season!