So how could I leave you all in such suspense about how my garden cover crop has been coming along!! Good heavens! As you no doubt recall, I actually managed to get something planted in the garden a couple of months ago. Sure, there've been no sweet juicy tomatoes, or plump orange pumpkins, but who cares about those when you've got great armies of nitrogen-fixing bacteria working away in the soil as we speak!
You can plainly see the difference. And another perk of this crop is--no weeding! Because it IS weeds! See the beauty? I'm actually not all that clear about what to do, next, but so far it's a happy $11 spent to feel like something's happening down there. More later, of course...
Fall is just fabulous here. Blah blah blah. Here are some photos. Actually, I'm kinda proud that all the trees I planted last fall have survived a year. They include a little Japanese Maple, all nice and red in the picture. A sugar maple, also pictured. A liquidambar, twice eaten to the ground by deer and valiantly rising to turn orange and red, though a little short for it's age (I call it "Napoleon").
The dogwood and giant sequoia also survived. The sequoia is about knee-high. We're pretty sure we won't be around to see it grow to it's full size, but it's fun to have it. Oh, and there's a shot of the tulip tree in front of the house, all yellow and wonderful--we didn't plant that one, however, and it's possible what whoever did didn't think too clearly about putting it so close to the house since it's supposed to grow to be gigantic, as well. Keeping an eye out...Apropos of absolutely nothing, here's a cool video from Science Friday (NPR) about water balloons in zero gravity. So fun! http://www.sciencefriday.com/
