soon!

ah! sorry for the long absence! matt and i have been without internet for about a week, and while it's been nice (more time for planting, tending to other projects, not wasting tons of time in front of the computer screen, reading more books) i've missed blogging. i promise to bring a big update soon about how the garden and seedlings are going. my grow table is overflowing with sugar snap peas, salad mix, spinach and carrots. i am super excited about how the garden is progressing!

starting our garden

the root systems on these types of weeds are amazingly tough.

matt is working hard all day long (11am-11pm, roughly), so i decided to get out in our garden and do some much-needed weed pulling and bulb planting.

a before:


after:


i pulled about 25lbs of weeds from that area alone. yikes!! our front yard is thankfully big, but it's also covered in plastic sheeting, weeds, and lava rock. it's going to be a little while before i can plant my seedlings -which i haven't started yet due to the weird weather. i planted about 35 tulip bulbs all around the perimeter of the fence in the area where it's just soil. a month ago i got really obsessed with the idea of planting tulips and daffodils around the edge of the fence, so i went out everyday for a week and tended to the soil - turning it, aerating parts, mixing it all up. it totally paid off! the soil is just the right consistency, and is already growing a bunch of wildflowers that i planted there about a week ago. yay! i hope my tulips will grow nice and big. also, in the corner at the top right of the fence, i planted about 10 daffodil bulbs.

i found lots of random things in the yard; we live on a pretty major street, so finding the occasional piece of trash is normal. lots of scraps of plastic, drink lids, papers... all kinds of things end up in our yard. this morning, a few other things showed up, too:

a san francisco muni fastpass. in my garden... in oakland.

a hilarious caterpillar that rolled itself around because it couldn't walk.

a cute ladybug who was unlucky enough to be on a weed i pulled.

there was also some chinese newspaper and a couple of mcdonalds cups. gah!! i'm out to garden some more.