Boom poses with a sugar snap pea pod. That crop is doing much better than last year’s. Below, one of the two marigold blossoms I’ve spotted in the overgrowth. It sprouted from seeds last year’s blossom dropped.
GARDEN 2.0
Flowers are blooming and vegetables are ripening... finally So many of the plants I transplanted from indoor pots to the ground outside seemed to die. For sure, two rounds of cucumber sprouts died within three days of transfer a month apart. Meanwhile, I couldn’t tell the difference between seeds I started outdoors and weeds, so I decided to stop weeding for a long time. I downloaded an app to take a picture and confirm one giant plant was simply a weed before rooting it out. Seeing that last year’s marigold did
reseed itself and I didn’t rip them all out makes me happy. Meanwhile, the only way to get my hands on a watering can in early May was to buy one that included poppy seeds. That round of seeds still hasn’t bloomed but there must have been poppies in the wild flower packet I spread because poppies are blooming back there. Compared to last year, the wild flowers are blooming months earlier and the vegetables are taking months longer. It’s wild. —MV
Summer 2021 • Art
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