This the hell is...
First order of business - I’ve been thwarted by colorblindness once again! Had I known the frill of that mystery plant was in fact green and not a sickly mustard yellow, I may have already deduced…
Rhubarb!
I managed to forget about the rhubarb I unceremoniously dumped in a patch of dirt under our fir tree after it was clear it had “died out” for the winter. Guess it was faking it.
The world is straddling a brink in this global pandemic between being a functioning yet gutted society, and being a death zone. It’s difficult to gauge what actions are and aren’t too alarmist or drastic; though given the warnings of long-term waves of quarantine, I think we’re all starting to err toward “more is better.” Unfortunately for some, this means hoarding products in an unethical way - effectively making the situation worse for those most at risk. My partner and I are approaching this from a more pragmatic and humanitarian angle by focusing efforts on growing and sustaining food crops in our yard.
We’re effectively repeating what we did last year, when it was our first foray into “urban farming,” though with much more purpose and intent to ensure decent yield, and to grow staple food crops. While we’re still at the very start of this setup (albeit a little behind sowing schedule), we did spend some time this afternoon getting leafy greens planted, while mapping out where existing herbs/plants should be relocated.
In light of my being completely unable to focus as life is a hot pile of worst-timeline tomfoolery, I’m just going to dedicate the rest of this post to photos with brief exposition. For example, here’s some spring, including a tree so laden with flowers it just can’t even:
These remaining images are of plants I’d placed within a winterization, er, sack - for lack of a better description. They stayed in that little sack in the open air all winter and y’know, results are good! Take a look:
