yesterday, removed plastic domes
and replaced with a floating row cover.
The idea was/is to catch the rain that already fell
last night. Presently +7C and raining...
It will not get down to frost this week....
the various lettuces are up,
so are some of the broad/Fava beans...
and I'm seeding more at these germination temperatures...
in the sunshine, yesterday, it was 85F/32C or so;
put all the houseplants out for an outing,
watered them with warm water;
also the geraniums put outside into the sun
fiddled all day in the garden,
taking a rest from reading/studying
alternating between books and vegetables
went for the first time since when?
to bed at 20pm and woke up at 3am;
usually go to bed at 3am and wake up at 8am,
but the "new" pattern is more agreeable during the summer:
birds are still active in the evening
so they're also the earliest in the morning;
compared to winter we have five hours more daylight
in the evening,
same in the morning
and here we don't switch the clock-
another six weeks and days will get shorter again...
but that means I will thereafter start my fall crop
of greens and vegetables
also baked some small white bread,
covered with salt and caraway seed
and ate it all
made another dandelion salad with onion greens;
I wait for the stinging nettles (richest in iron)
to add to the salad...
the Morning Cloak butterfly
went again for some dried out apple hanging in the tree,
so he must be the same returning from his/her hibernation,
flies towards me
last year he sat down on my book
both of us reading the signs of the time yet to come