It has been a difficult spring. Frosts all the way into early May, but also hot, dry weather during the day without our usual level of spring rain. Still, we are making do as best we can.
Finally got the garlic excavated.
This is entirely by pulling a wheelbarrow load of weeds first thing in the morning for a week or so. Would it be better and easier just to get ahead of the weeds, and stay ahead? Yes.
Would it be possible? No.
We put our tomatoes in last week. Cucurbits need to go in tonight or tomorrow night.
Our dwarf mulberry has baby mulberries on it! As Winnie says, “They’re so itsy-bitsy!”
Figs! From our four-year-old fig tree, the one that did not get eaten down to nothing by the sheep.
Little Farm in the Big City 