We be jammin'

Last year D, who is part of my Women's Workday Group, kindly shared some of her strawberry plants with me. We dug up 2 plants and one of them gave up the ghost at the end of last summer. Here is my sole survivor - doesn't he look fabulous? You can't see in this picture but I have two strawberry blossoms. Not enough for jam, mind you, but enough for 1 bite and the pleasure of knowing that the little bit of sweetness came from my own yard.

Here are 2 of my original volunteer tomato plants. I discovered last night that the 3rd one, the smallest one, is not doing well. I found him limp and sprawled out on the floor, I suspect that damn gopher has been chewing his roots. Will have to find and use the gopher cages that should still be in the ground from last year, to accommodate the rest of my volunteers and such that I will be planting.






















Last but not least, my newest little corner of the world. Taking inspiration from J's courtyard (my other cohort in Women's Work Days) I placed pots of canna (donated from J's canna thinning last year) in this bare back corner of the bed in the back. Then I used donations from D around the bottom edges to soften things up. It will all fill in and, hopefully, keep the cats from this corner that they tend to use to make the great backyard escape.