My Darling B's Garden

Peas marching along the fence line of My Darling B's garden.

She planted them some weeks ago and already some (not in this photo) are beginning to blossom, which makes B squeal with delight in anticipation of fresh peas for the kitchen.

A Weekend Made For Gardening

Even with the rain we've had, it's been just about the perfect weekend for gardening.

My Darling B's been out in it all day today, weeding, planting, tilling and watering, to say nothing of how much mud she's tracked into the house.

This photo unfortunately can't show you much. You'll simply have to take my word for it that there are legions of onions, tomatoes, peas, lettuce and broccoli marching across these fields. To the left, just in front of B, you can make out a small portion of this year's crop of garlic, almost as high as B's waist and growing higher every day.

First Batch

If the recipe I followed doesn't fail me, it'll be dandelion wine in six to twelve months. We have a lot of dandelions, so we figured we ought to make good use of at least some of them. We had to pick and de-petal probably five hundred dandelion blossoms to make the gallon you see here.

I pitched the yeast into this batch last night and fermentation's already begun, so it's off to a good start. Too bad we have to wait so long to see if it works out. Meantime, we're planning our next batch, so we'll have more than one gallon jug waiting to be sampled come the snows of November.

Not looking forward to plucking all those tiny little petals off again, though.

Weekend visit to the farmer's market

My Darling B hasn't even begun to plant tomatoes in her garden, but there are plenty to be had at the Dane County Farmer's Market.

Flowers around the yard

We have wood violets in our lawn. Not sure how they got there; like the Creeping Charlie and the Begonias, we inherited them when we bought the house. They only last for a week or so in the spring but they sure are pretty.