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Um, yeah, those are not Black Krim tomatoes. Yellow Pear, as advertised, tho.

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Zinnias sprouting in front door pot

weekend update

Saturday Bram wanted to make sure his car still started and he had some library books to return, so I tagged along to get out of the house and to go to Payne's. Got basil and marigolds for the raised bed in the backyard and a packet of Purple Prince zinnia seeds for the front door pot. Tomatoes are doing well. East bed in the backyard is looking good. Wonder if we'll get any flowers on the Philadelphus this year.

week(end) update

Tuesday I went to the farmers' market this week, in search of tomato plants. Turned out The Vagabond Farmers were selling starts there! They are farming at the Farministas space this year, so that's a nice bit of continuity. They didn't have any Robesons or Sungold, so I ended up getting a Black Krim (another black Russian type) and a Yellow Pear. I think they both have slightly longer growing times, so fingers crossed. I'll probably go to the farmers' market again this week and see if anyone has basil and/or marigolds and/or something for the front door pot. (Also planning on getting actual food.) Traditional tomato-plants-in-my-car photo:



Wednesday Put them out to harden off.

Sunday Planted tomatoes. Don't remember, but I must have finished the bottle of Superthrive Stacy gave me before she moved. Will need to get some more of that as well.


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Some details from the pano: volunteer dill growing from a crack in the flagstones, protected by pieces of firewood; chives are blooming; the culinary sage is also blooming, don't remember that ever happening before.

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Well, COVID-19 has eaten all my traditional spring gardening outings. The Spring Garden Fair is cancelled, and per order of the Governor, all nurseries are closed until at least April 30 (to be re-evaluated then). The garden centers at Big Orange and Big Blue are still open — I may brave Orange to get a few bags of my usual mushroom compost.

Thanks to Jannine Cabossel over at giantveggiegardener for the updates, and leads on alternate plant start sources!

How about some pictures? All the dead growth from last summer in the east bed was bugging me, so I took down the bamboo "fence" and cleaned everything out the other day. What day? Who knows anymore? I've been at home (except for dog walks) since March 22 and working from home full time since March 16. The plants don't care about coronavirus tho. The earth tilts on its axis, days get longer, the plants come back. 💚

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During (oh, hi there, Philadelphus!)



After