We have early girl tomatoes! Beautiful early girl tomatoes.
We have deer visitors who didn't destroy much yesterday or today.
We have lettuce!
That's lettuce, right? I'm shell-shocked from the recent lettuce incident. Until this instant, when I googled the
definition of the phrase shell-shocked, I thought it referred to shy, Disney-esque shellfish characters. I like my way better.
And we have another lettuce, even smaller than the first.
Someone made a deadly mistake when they put me in charge of lettuce. Baby lettuces are more difficult to care for and keep safe than baby humans are.
Moving on: we have lots of little Cayenne peppers.
I am pleased, excited, and I predict a prolific year for the peppers.
We have more surprise potentilla arenaria wildflowers. These are by our play structure.
My temptation (that I'm resisting) is to mark them with those flags for electrical lines so we don't mow them down.
The best part of having an acre and a half that we can almost basically let go and let grow ("neglect," one might say) is all of the wonderful surprises that randomly grow on their own. I've seen wildflowers, trees, shrubs, and possibly even an occasional fruit or vegetable randomly appear and grow on our property.
The worst part about having a feral acre and a half is the terrible surprises such as poison ivy. I just spent half an hour tracking down and poisoning young poison ivy. I feel like I need a holster to carry my
Round Up Poison Ivy Killer.
Coach: this is a business opportunity for you.
