Blueberries!
I was planning to avoid planting vegetables this year because I'm still too insecure about my gardening skills.
Meh.
We planted some veggies on May 31st: corn, green beans, scarlet runner beans, zucchini squash, winter squash, eggplant. Spot decided to get lettuces and broccoli too and plant them in a large pot, and we planted some nasturtiums for the aphids. All of these sit in a bed of crimson clover next to the yarrow.
The robins and the dogs are especially fond of the veggie patch. I regularly see one of the cantankerous robin family pecking through the clover. The dogs sniff the veggies several times a day. So far they haven't tried to eat them or pee on them.
So far everything looks pretty much the same as it did when we planted it, though there is a little extra growth on the green beans.
The runner beans haven't sprouted yet, and no one has partaken of the poles that I lovingly fashioned into teepees for them. Ingrates.
When I asked a friend why my beans hadn't sprouted yet, he told me that I needed the magic beans that you trade a cow for.
I decided to mulch my blueberry bushes with the copious pine cones that litter my front yard. I checked online to see if anyone had anything meaningful to say about pine cones as mulch, and they were generally for it. They did say that they were better if you run them through the chipper first because they're usually so big that they don't cover the ground effectively.
Clearly that person doesn't have as many pine cones as I do.
I went out to check the beans this morning and then forgot to take my garden clogs off, so I wore them to work at my corporate job in a downtown high rise. No one noticed.
Seattle.
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