Waiting Game

This is my least favorite part of gardening. Come to think of it, this is my least favorite time in knitting too, which is why I'm working on so many things at once...

Anyway! All of my lovely little plants are in the ground, it's too early to tell if the carrot experiment will work the second try, and I've waited this long to show you my lovely mulched garden:

 Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle. (A path! A path!)

Oh right, have I not mentioned my roses are GORGEOUS?

I have more to clear, and some more seeds to plant, but that's not the point. The point is that the exciting part's over, for now. Picking plants is exciting, watering them every day is not. Putting plants in the ground is exciting, weeding is not.

So unless I become an obsessive record keeper and start measuring all of my plants every day and photographing them, which I will NOT be doing, there's not much to do but maintenance until things take off. Which shouldn't be for a few weeks.

One bright shining light in the ongoing tedium is that STRAWBERRIES ripen in June. And for the first time I had a survivor:

Wow my hands are dry

He was delicious.