Another day in the garden. We got all the tomato and pepper plants in, tucking them here and there into and between the "guilds." I nearly finished weeding the perniciously overgrown raspberry/fig guild, revealing beach strawberries [1] putting out runners at a fantastic rate. Hooray! They're so cheerful, with their deep green shiny leaves and pretty white flowers. I don't even care if we get any berries.

Also hooray: The futsu squash germinated, so we'll have Japanese pumpkins in the fall, with luck.

Today Anhata brought over an armful of the stinkiest Polish garlic I have ever encountered--wonderfully stinky if you like garlic, which we do--with little "baby" bulblets hanging off them ready to be planted. She also brought over some silk scarf blanks and some Kool-Aid and we did a little microwave dyeing, but I'm not gonna tell you more about that until Wednesday. Suffice it to say, my fingertips are purple and green.

And! Ima brought me a kombucha scoby [2] last week and the tea's almost ready to decant! A banner week, folks.

PS: The summer slipcover's up. Traditionally I plan for Memorial Day Weekend, and I'm on time this year.

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