Spring is Sprunging
Slowly, and in fits and starts, the weather is turning. We're still getting snow showers and threats of inches of the stuff, but at the same time, the grass in sunny places is starting to green up. Daffodils are popping up, as are tulips. Time to get some maintenance accomplished and some things in the ground. Today, I put arugula, spinach, and carrots in the ground. Next weekend, or the weekend after, the snow peas will need to go in. Hence I did some maintenance on the trellis (which was somewhat the worse for wear after last year. Is there anything that you can't fix with zip ties and chicken wire? Another outdoor task was to clean up a lot of the tarps that were sort of strewn around the patio after a winter of covering wood, which has now been burned. Eggplant, two kinds of peppers, and tomatoes are humming along nicely in the greenhouse. State of the world is terrible, as expected. The geniuses in D.C. decided that masked fascist white supremacist goo...