04-24-2026 — Why does the garden grow

Howdy all. An adequately decent day outside for a change. And, other than a headache, I’m feeling decent. The XFiber trucks have been back to this yard a few times over the last week. This morning, they came and poured something into the below ground buckets they had previously dug in to hold the fiber cable safe from lawn mowers. My lawn service pulled all of the flags that I hadn’t, when they mowed on Thursday (yesterday).

While they were mowing, I was out doing some garden bed weeding. And did a lot more today.

Not exactly a warm spring day, but comparatively good enough

I weeded and added fertilizer to the open beds back by the fence. The second from the bottom is where I had planted potatoes last month. A couple have popped through the soil. And a few old carrots from last year are in the 3rd from bottom bed. And a few old onions are popping up amongst the spreading strawberry plants in the bed above that.

A better view of those old carrots. I tossed some new carrot seeds in this side of the bed to keep them from being lonely.

The strawberries are spreading. Some are even blossoming already. In a couple years, they should take over all of those beds back by the fence. Oh, you can see some of my weeding efforts on the ground outside the beds.

This solitary tomato plant survived its exile in the garage for the last 3 weeks waiting for freezes to stop, and for me to get the energy to plant it. The others are shriveled up and are now in trash. I ordered a few new ones which will arrive in next week. This is a yellow tomato. My favorite. I’ll only plant a few more tomato plants this year. A lot fewer than years past.

A couple of the potato plants from the seed potatoes I put in last month. They are taking off finally.

I spread a few hundred various flower seeds (many are sunflowers) in the beds out by the fence too. They should do okay amongst the strawberries (I hope).

I have plenty of flower bulbs to plant too. Just haven’t convinced myself where I want them to come up each year. Need them in the ground soon, so they can sprout this year and Enjoy Life.