ok, Things Are Coming Along

...wet garden and all.
Every Spring, the same story..."it's too wet to plow!" and "We'll NEVER get this field planted!"
And then it dries up some, and then we do.
It's a frustrating time here in south Louisiana. It's been raining JUST enough to keep us from planting. Will did get an opportunity to plow...once...but once of course is not enough. It must be done two or three times, then rows pulled up etc and etc.

In the meantime, yes, we have some strawberries..some days, way too many! I must have picked 1000 of them yesterday (and I kid you not).
But it is hard to let our beloved customers know. Because it's an every two day or so event. And that's all there is at the moment. And we would HATE to have more people want them than we had berries for. So we store and cut and freeze and every now and then a customer says 'are there some for me?' and we say, well sure!
In the meantime, as we wait for the moment when we can go out and actually plant, thank you, I have made many flats, mostly herbs...because i cannot stand the anticipation! I MUST have herbs, the sooner the better! and this is a picture that is probably two weeks old, but here you go..I have the usual suspects: Basil: Italian, Mammoth, Lemon...I have Sage (because you have to replant every two years or so) and Oregano (even thought it never is quite right) and Marjoram (because Will is a new fan of that) and of course other interesting things: Bee Balm and Bergamot (because the herb beds have been plowed (ouch) and Catnip and Hyssop (yeah, right and what is that?) and Statice (see 'your dried flowers') and I would have seeded the Flax, but Will encouraged me to wait and direct-seed and my friend who spins yarn wants to know what type I am planting, but as far as I can tell, it's not about 'type', it's about how far apart you plant the plants....close for seed, (as in flax-seed), far apart for cloth but I wanted seed but now I'm thinking ...hey - linen? So, this and that.
And, finally, the Thyme bed had to be ripped up (R.I.P) because I could not keep the Bermuda Grass out of it, so a new generation of thyme plants is at hand and I have no idea where I'm going to put them, but one must have thyme, right?And so..things are moving along, although slower than we would like. We do have an eager customer ready to bring her kids fishing this weekend and that is a good thing...it should be fun.
As we await the 'big planting' we have flowers and things that are being very showy....it's a start.