The gardener's busiest weekend of the year. Spectacular weather. Yesterday, helped Greg install a new cornstarch-based solar "mulch" and planted out his tomatoes (10), cucumbers, peppers (28!), broccoli, lettuce, eggplant seedlings. The mulch will last about 3 months. Also planted my cosmos, teddy bear sunflowers, and store-bought snapdragons and replacement alchemilla (Lady's Mantle). Today planted some plants that had been bought/delivered a while ago (tricyrtis, anemone, rose campion); repotted the bay (my theory is leaves turning brown due not to disease or insects but being rootbound); potted leftover eggplant seedlings; lobelia and calibrachoa that we bought today. Sprayed roses, baptisia and yarrow with Pyola. Tomorrow, hope to tackle the agapanthus and impatiens.
Last night Greg made some really delicious cream of asparagus soup -- really simple, sauteed leeks, chicken stock, asparagus, salt, pepper, a touch of creme fraiche, pureed. He made this soup last week (also quite good), but the flavor was more intense this time, in part due to the asparagus, in part due perhaps due to the leeks.
Struggling along with a bruised shin/ankle obtained Thursday night (run in with the tub, sleep walking perhaps?).
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