This is the first spring with a yard since 2002 and – even though the property is about a tenth of the size of the 165 by 600 foot patch remaining around the old farmhouse in PEI – I seem to be working, which was never really the plan. I got collard greens, purple potatoes, yellow onions and even yellow beets in the ground out at the borrowed plot north of the 401. That certainly added unexpected labour. Here in town I am working more on pots and seed starting, though the sugar snap peas have joined the radishes.
The pear tree and the apple tree we inherited are in bloom, likely in vain both starved though bad planning of the right sort of companionship. I should especially find the pear a companion seeing as they only pollinate off of another variety but, as we all know, he who plants pears plants for his heirs and I’ve only so much time.