We finally had another sunny day here after a cold miserable rainy week. The water's good for the garden, of course, but it was nice to get out and do some work in the yard today.
Mostly it was weeding -- I ran the edger around the outside of the raised beds, and we made the attempt to find some free mulch to actually mulch the paths, but didn't find any today.
Also weeded the poppy bed and underneath the hedges and the daylily bed in the back of the yard -- mostly removing grass and what we've been calling clingweed, though I don't know the official name. That stuff is insidious and annoying, and I'm not going to compost it in fear of spreading the seeds all over.
Turned the compost pile, and found lots of exciting worms. Ben tried carrying one, but dropped it on the way to the garden, and was interested to see me carry one over to the garden, but didn't want to pick up any more after dropping the first. He did go get his shovel and help turn the pile, though.
Some more shoots have sprouted; the picture in the previous entry is probably a sunflower and not a pea (oops). The Early Dividend Hybrid Broccoli has started sprouting; each sprout has two teeny-tiny leaves. Parsley also may be coming up; I need to check the spacing to be sure.
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