After too much time in meetings, conferences and in front of the computer, I spent a little bit of time this afternoon in the small plot we have in the community gardens. Fiona has been fighting a sore throat so she and Kim stayed home.

When I first approached our plot, I was disappointed. The only thing that seemed to be thriving were the weeds. There is a small rose bush that I was trying to nurture back to health after having been choked out by weeds for who knows how long. Someone seemed to enjoy it, for all that was left was the main stock with thorns and no leaves. The remnant of branches were strewn on the ground around it.

The corn plants look good except for a few areas where no plants seemed to have come up and one plant that someone seemed to enjoy nibbling on. The watermelon plants were small, and apparently bug bitten. Yet most of them appear to have made it. The area where I planted cucumbers appears to be all weeds with only a handful of plants having made it. Perhaps some haven’t come up yet. Perhaps they have, and have been seriously eaten.

So, this afternoon, I did a bit of weeding and then planted some broccoli and some beans. The garden is again looking like it is tended instead of wild and we shall see how it progresses over the summer.