Well, it's ready to grow now. The fence went up around the "greater" garden today, encompassing the vegetable garden and strawberry patch. Unlike most normal people who simply fence their chickens in, I go to a lot of trouble to fence them out, so they can have free range and tempt the foxes and other predators.
I emptied one of the compost bins and worked it into the cold season bed with the Honda cultivator (two pulls to start after a winter of unwinterized inactivity). Tomorrow or Monday, the seeds can go in — lettuce, beets, turnips, spinach, radishes, broccoli, and whatever else I find in the seed box. Oh, and those darned bulbs.
Tonight, a few weeks late, the ceremonial spring fire (should have been on the equinox), burning up most of the limbs that came down over the winter, and the prunings from the big pear tree out front, which I trimmed more aggressively than usual. The Christmas tree conflagration was incredible, lighting up the whole garden area as if with floodlights, with a waning crescent of moon setting and a sky full of stars for a backdrop. Orion is holding out for dear life, still visible just after dusk, but soon he'll be gone until autumn.
What glorious weather!
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Is the hammock up and the push stick nearby? Or do you wait for all the leaves to grow on the pear trees?
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