A Dream Deferred

The above picture sums up today's gardening activities.

So, maybe April 26 is jinxed. Today did not work out as planned. Apparently clearing a small to medium sized plot is much harder than it looks.

The area where the bed will be placed has compacted sand. Very difficult to move with less than motivated staff. Note to self, riesling and gardening do not mix. We will have to bring in outside help.

Once we realized that the raised bed wasn't going to happen in a day, we re-focused attention on seedlings and BBQ.

According to everything that I have read, we are way far behind in the planting schedule. Would that have stopped the first Pilgrims? No. Are we the first Pilgrims? Another no. But it is still worth a go. If nothing else, we will know for sure that April 26 is a terrible day to start seedlings.

Today we started:

PS Aster Opus

PS Nasturtium "Jewel of Africa"

PS Chinese Cabbage "Wawa Tsai"

PS Tomato "Beefy Boy Hybrid"

PS Carrot "Nantes"
PS Basil "Nufar"

PS Broccoli Packman

PS Cucumber Cool Breeze

PS Pepper Sweet Banana

PS Pea Dwarf White Sugar

BP Nasturtium Fordhook

BP Sweet Pea Sweet Dreams

Something worth remembering - the giant grub the children nicknamed "grubby", and knowing once and for all that I could never be on Survivor, because I could never eat a giant grub.

See the full photo set here

luv, chris