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The greenhouse-like shelter seems to have REALLY helped the veggies

first flowers of 2011, excluding daffodils & grape hyacinths

The first stocks flowers are these, which were self-seeded from last year's. Non of the dozens of stocks seedlings in planters have yet flowered.

I feed "Big Boy" and "Girl Friend" by leaving scraps of food in a salmon can on my back porch. They come to expect it. "Big Boy" is much less timid than Girl Friend. He's bigger, and his chest feathers are always sticking out at the bottom, giving him the look of having just rolled out of bed.

first flowers of 2011, excluding daffodils & grape hyacinths

first flowers of 2011, excluding daffodils & grape hyacinths

2011 garden pics

... going to seed for next year

Rick on Vivian Street gave us some raspberry plants this year, and we got a fairly good crop off of them. 2011 garden pics

with herbs in front, stocks behind, sunflowers & squash to the left.