How is your garden doing so far? I know it's early, but I've planted a few things, and they are coming up! I planted nine potato plants (I think), and I'm seeing some sprouts, and my radishes are thriving. I planted lettuce this past weekend, and transplanted the broccoli plants I purchased at the local greenhouse. And the strangest thing has happened with my one lonely tomato plant: somehow, four more have sprouted in the same pot! I have no idea how it happened, but maybe I'll have more than one tomato after all! Time will tell. I am calling it a tomato miracle. I'll take whatever I can get!
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| Fresh garden beds. I'm using stones to separate the spaces in the garden beds (just for my reference). Top to bottom: four broccoli, three rows of radishes, and a freshly planted lettuce bed. Potatoes on the right. |
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| The miracle tomato pot. Five plants. How...?? |
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| Potato plants just beginning to poke through the dirt. |
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| The lone asparagus! |
I think we have a pair of nesting cardinals somewhere in our property. I've seen this guy out and about a lot lately, and the female is usually somewhere nearby. I have yet to locate the nest, although I'm really not looking for it. I will leave it be. But it's such a treat to see the bright red contrasted against the lush green grass when I catch him poking around the yard. Check him out!
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| "Hmmm, which blade of grass will be tasty?" |
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| "This one looks delicious!" |
Well, as of right now, the doctor doesn't think that I am gluten intolerant. Removing gluten from my diet didn't make much difference in the symptoms, and the celiac blood test came back normal. They still have no idea what may be going on, though. I'm slowly adding wheat-based products back to my diet. I can't say that I've noticed any difference my overall health by avoiding gluten-based products, and I don't believe that it's a good idea for a body's health to cut out an entire food group from the diet, but I am going to try and cut back a bit. Hopefully I'll find out some more answers when I go back to the doctor this week: they did an abdominal ultrasound on Friday, and I'll get the results. I don't anticipate them finding any issues in the results, though. Time will tell.
I love the picture of your cardinal. I hope they are nesting nearby so you will have a family of bug catchers for your garden! I also love the single asparagus! It's red! Good luck with your garden this year.
ReplyDeleteIt is autumn in my veggie patch and tomaotes are also popping up from re-seeding over the summer. I like that your beds are raised. Lovely to see a cardinal in the green grass - I have only ever seen pictures of them in the snow.
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