Memorial Day is the official planting time here in Vermont. Of course, Memorial Day used to be May 30th when it could be more safely assumed that the season's last frost had occurred. Now that they've gone to the three day weekend approach to so many holidays, Memorial Day fell on the 25th. Most of the neighbors were out planting just the same. I'm impatient enough to have put in three tomato plants, a cucumber hill, basil, and parsley. The lettuce is already sprouting up from seed. So guess what--frost and freeze warnings out for tonight.
It's been a while since I have posted anything and even my reading your posts is falling by the wayside. I am in Florida now. I have a yard where little attention was spent on landscaping for the past years so I am slowly and (somewhat) methodically addressing that. I also volunteer to work at the pollinator garden and the edible garden I helped install at the UU grounds and I took over the volunteer job of cleaning out the overgrown community garden by my neighborhood mailboxes. The neighbor who was doing that got sick and could no longer attend to it. It's a bigger job than I'd thought at first -- not only overgrown with weeds, but the plants that are wanted there are in life and death competition for each others' spaces. And two walks a day, morning and evening, so Levi can keep up with addiction to canine social media and a daily rousing came of stick or ball midday take up another chunk of my time. I have a weekly meditation group that I co-facilitate, and my own ...
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