To The Surbiton Manor Born

It's been a wet, cool spring, making it difficult to believe that we are already halfway through June. It is amazing how quickly things have grown. We certainly have not been burdened with the need to water. Even now, we have "heavy rain" and 67 degrees outside. We've had this a lot. Minnesota is out of draught, and still, it rains.  Tomorrow is supposed to be our first truly steamy day, with a high of 89 and FEMA telling us that there's a heat advisory. Hooray! A few strawberries have shown up. There are many, many raspberries preparing getting ready. The tomatoes, cheaters & non-cheaters, are blossoming. The Early Girls actually have little green tomatoes on them.  One thing that's not happened today is any work on the garden path up to the garage, or finishing the work on the garden paths down in the berry patch. The clock ticks the weekend away, and still no progress.  Tomorrow is another day. Work awaits!  

If it wants planting, now's the time. If it needs waterproofing, now's the time. Today was a lovely day in the garden, at puttering speed. Sunny, 70, and bloody  windy (of course). It's dawned that the growing season is short, and if the seeds aren't in the ground soon, they're not getting in the ground. So, containers of lettuce & marigolds were planted. Cosmos went in. Marigolds were re-planted where they didn't start. The area by the garage was cleaned up, the workbench that had been there since winter went into the shed as a nice shelf.  Tomatoes are forming. There are some little green ones on the Early Girls, and blossoms showing. Raspberries are showing, and the bees are busy working on them. Green strawberries are showing up. Not ready yet, but soon. Yesterday was a bit more active - 6-mile run, recovering from last week's Dam to DSM Half Marathon in Des Moines. Involved a canoe paddle with the kid on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis. (A horrible plac