I’m tired and beat up, but progress on the meadow garden continues. My friend David came up on Friday and we built the pergola slash entryway to the garden. It turned out well -- in an ideal world we would have done some really clean mortise and tenon joinery but I don’t have that skillset yet and the thing needed to be built.

Saturday marked the end of farm school, and Sunday I continued work on the garden solo. Progress felt slow, but I trenched around maybe a third of the perimeter and got the chicken wire in the ground. It’s starting to look like a proper fence.

Sunday Observations
Snowberries coming back with a vengeance.
Snowberries coming back with a vengeance.
Matilija Poppies
Matilija Poppies
Crazy albino matilija poppy
Crazy albino matilija poppy
Raspberries leafing out.
Raspberries leafing out.
Lemon balm
Lemon balm
Yarrow coming up.
Yarrow coming up.
Ground squirrel hole in the compost. Frogs have now moved in.
Ground squirrel hole in the compost. Frogs have now moved in.
Boysenberry cutting taking hold.
Boysenberry cutting taking hold.
Volunteer compost tomato.
Volunteer compost tomato.
Poison oak coming to life.
Poison oak coming to life.
Pretty sure this is bur chervil and not poison hemlock...
Pretty sure this is bur chervil and not poison hemlock...
Bad picture of jujube leafing out.
Bad picture of jujube leafing out.
Garlic
Garlic
Strawberries
Strawberries
Comfrey
Comfrey
Wild strawberries
Wild strawberries
Dandelions popping up everywhere
Dandelions popping up everywhere