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Garden update photos! 6 May 2008 11:09 pm

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So last Wednesday I got home from work and was greeted by a happy sight:

Lilacs! Blooming! Maybe spring is finally here! With these hopeful thoughts in mind, my mind naturally turned towards the garden, and my eyes (and camera) followed:

I remember reading somewhere that it’s safe to plant beans when lilac blooms, but um, I’ve got a lot of other stuff to do in my garden before I can plant beans, to put it mildly. Still, here’s a little look at what is going on in my mostly bean-less garden (as always, clicking on pictures will take you to larger versions on Flickr):

Here’s why I describe the garden as only mostly bean-less:

Favas! I planted these way back in February, and they’ve survived snow and hail and are now so big I feel mostly okay leaving them out without frost fabric. (Yes, I am an extremely overprotective plant momma.)

Although no match for the mighty hugeness of my bucket o’ potato plant, there’s finally some pretty decent plants to show for the spuds I buried outside at the same day I started the indoor experiment (last photographed 26 April):

Perhaps you can see a reason or two I took these pictures in part to prove to myself that I really needed to get weeding? I did get on that project over the weekend, but I suspect I was most motivated by happy sights like these snap peas: