We've officially entered the dry season. This isn't such great news for the plants, but for us it means long, warm, sunny days. Akiva really makes me get outside. We've added several new walks to our schedule (though he's recently decided that he's bored in the stroller - oh no!) and the front steps are a lovely place to munch a breakfast bagel.
We've also, it seems, acquired two serfs. A lovely couple with no yard of their own put an add on a local website looking for space to garden. The trade? Half the bounty the garden yields. Hardworking from the first day, they cleared a quarter of our yard, built a brick path down the center of the garden plot, and have been showing up almost every day to work compost into the soil and plant seeds and starter plants. Mark's getting into the project, too. He and Amalia, our female serf, are rigging a wire thing for beans and peas to climb.
I've been busy in the front yard. I cleared the bed in the hottest part of the front garden to plant corn. I also cleared one of the flower beds of weeds and divided and replanted our dahlias. We've got some creeping phlox going along with several perennials I picked up. I recently discovered that my mums have come back so I'll be transplanting those as well.
Back to vegetables/fruit: Mark and I just finished reading the 100 Mile Diet by J.B. MacKinnon and Alisa Smith (It appears to be called Plenty in the U.S.) - a book about eating locally. I'm not yet prepared to give up coffee and chocolate, but we're going to grow and store as much as we can this year. We're lucky to live in a place where we had lettuce growing and ready to eat in January.
Ok, Akiva is up wanting a midnight snack. More later.
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