Cleaning up my early spring garden

Come join me today as I work in my veggie garden.

I'd welcome the company,

because I have a lot of work to do to turn this into a workable garden.


I hope I can make it not only functional, but also pleasing to the eye.   Unfortunately, I got distracted by a noise.

By the time I had grabbed my camera, two street sweepers had passed by my house.

Even with two passes, it looks like they didn't do a very good job.

One street sweeper turned around while the other one continued to sweep the street.

Golly, the city had called in reinforcements.

I watched mesmerized

as what appeared to me to be a slow dance between machines.

I kept snapping photos until I realized how high the grass had gotten nearly overnight.

That was when I got bored and decided it was time to get back on task.

Where was I?  Have I not mentioned I get easily distracted?

Oh yes, I was cleaning out my pots so I could plant seeds.

I was near the end when I started on this pot.  Do you see the ants?  They were everywhere, but they may not show in the photo.  I see several on the big leaf to the left, but it's hard to tell because they are all carrying my precious soil away.

I don't like ants.  I especially don't like them when they are crawling all over my hands, arms, and clothes.   So, one quick photo and I'll be back tomorrow.  For now, I must get these ants off me!

Fast forward about 24 hours and note my tools of the trade.

I've just planted radishes

in the ground, not a pot.

I also threw some cantaloupe seeds in the ground that my friend Sally saved from a cantaloupe she purchased earlier in the year.  I covered the seeds with a bit of soil and some wet leaves so the seeds will have a chance to develop.

I managed to clean the rest of the pots and plant my sweet basil seeds.

I didn't have the heart to remove the dill I found growing in this one.

I'm not sure I have enough room in this pot for planting the mesclun mix, so I divided the seeds into two pots.

I finally have the pots in the approximate place I want them.

The garden doesn't look too bad from this angle,

but photos are often deceiving.

Unfortunately the garden looks a bit wimpy from the street side.  Note how high the grass is in the back yard.  That's definitely not a good sign.

However, it's incredibly wet right now, and you can't mow mud!

If you made it this far, I promise to not show my garden again until either the end of the month OR the first of June.  And thanks for visiting, since this is less a hobby and more a chore at the moment.