February Garden.

A quick glimpse at one of the only keepers in the February garden. Leeks planted last Spring are still holding strong.




I put them in between tomato plants and rows of carrots. The tomatoes got so large that they blocked out the sun to the tiny leeks and they never did grow. The leeks looked the same as the day I put them in the ground when I went to pull out the tomatoes in the Fall. I've let them keep going over the winter and I think we'll have some Spring leeks in the end.

On a sad note, we've finally eaten through our carrot supply and I've gone back to buying carrots at the store.

A small victory on Sunday morning, however, when we wanted to make a nice breakfast but didn't have anything more than eggs and potatoes in the house Mike went out and snipped a small bushel of red chard that has survived our cold temps this winter better than its yellow chard neighbor and we had a delicious breakfast with a serving of veggies. It gives me hope for a good garden this year.

New Trees.

As I mentioned previously, our plum tree died. We are in the process of having it removed and doing some other tree-related work around the house. We have two vacant spaces for street trees, and another three dying street trees that need to be removed.

This weekend I spent part of my Saturday planting trees with Friends of Trees. In addition to planting two new street trees at our house in the empty spaces, we planted another 10 or so to other nearby neighbors.








All in all the organization put in about 250 trees in the Woodlawn and Piedmont neighborhoods on Saturday. And now I know how to plant a tree! The hardest part will be the waiting. I don't know how big we will get to see these trees grow. Maybe we'll never move and get to see them to 20 feet high.