The garden is starting to flourish. Last Friday we had the first mini-harvest. Bonnie and I made salads (yes yes from store bought lettuce) but we spiked it with arugula from the garden, the arugula is so good! (Actually, I guess we've made mint tea before.) I planted the basil I got at the Botanic Garden plant sale last Thurs morning. Today I planted the tomatoes. I just planted them where there seems to be the most sun. I also just planted bean seeds between the brocolli rows, cuz I think by the time the beans start coming on strong it'll be too hot for the broc. The beans are contender bush beans, which Steven scorned, "bush beans only harvest for a few weeks!" But I'd already boughten the seeds by the time he'd gone into his antibush rant so I figured they'd go to waste otherwise. Plus I like to grow bush and pole beans, because the bush are ready to harvest 3-4 weeks before the pole beans. I also planted crookneck squash seeds in the NW and NE corners of the garden.
Bonnie mentioned getting a hive of bees, which I'd thought about before, but our house is in the middle of 3 or 4 parking lots, so I really don't know what they'd pollinate. Otherwise I would, especially since I doubt either of our neighbors would notice or care.
I bought a second fermentation bucket yesterday and ingredients for a Hefe. Maybe called "There and Back Again Hefe".
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