Spring harvest

Maybe it was more of a spring thinning, but the French radishes I pulled from the ground today tasted great in my salad. There were more, but I ate them before I took this photo.

Two tomato plants went in the ground today, and I can't wait for some real tomatoes. That's a long way off, though.

Pulling weeds

You Grow Girl offers 12 Reasons Why I Don't Grow Edibles in my Street Garden. Lucky for me, my little piece of garden isn't on the street, though it would be nice to have somewhere to plant flowers closer to home.

Maryann kept me company in the garden today, and we got some watering help from our new friend Delisha, who was playing on the playground next door.

Playing in the dirt

The gardening season opened yesterday, with my first day of weeding. A friend and I spent about 7 hours in her Hampden garden plot (where I have little rectangle this year), most of it just pulling and pulling and pulling weeds.

It didn't seem so hard at the time -- and hanging out in the dirt is fun -- but last night I hurt from my calves to my shoulders. My weeding muscles in my right wrist still aren't happy. But I got to plant some cold-weather plants: lettuce, carrots and radishes.

I wish I'd taken before and after photos, because we accomplished so much.

Too bad the ground's still frozen

My carrot seeds arrived on my desk yesterday, so now all I need is the last frost and some other seeds and to start some tomato plants, and then it will be time to get outside.

I've been wanting to plant some basil inside because I have huge south-facing windows that make parts of the apartment greenhouse-like, but casual attempts to find potting soil have proved fruitless.