pea fence

one sweet pea fence is up. four of the twigs that i used for last year’s fence took root, so i now have trees growing in my cool weather garden. swiss chard is also in…ahead of the week + of rain expected. over-winter conditions must have been ideal for last year’s chard as a new crop is growing from last season’s planting.

with less than 12 weeks until D day, i’ve been trying to keep things simple. right. on top of the total house makeover that we seemed to have gotten ourselves into, Dad and Kevin started the processes of deconstructing an over-engineered play fort and moving it from a house in Bloom to our backyard. we didn’t exactly budget time for that project but, hey, it’s free. and it’s for the kids.

i’ve had to pull and burn most of the 20+ tomato plants that i started from seed. we had 2 red toms for lunch and i’ve harvested a few green ones to fry. i trimmed back the plants that are not too infected to see if they can hang on long enough to let their fruit ripen a bit more. i don’t want any spores to alight from my patch, so we’re smoking out the neighborhood with the burning plants.