With California having a "Stay at Home" order, we're mostly confined to our homes but still permitted out for exercise, food, medical needs, and critical jobs. Most days we stay home with the exception of a walk in the neighborhood, maintaining social distance from others. Today was a Saturday, so we had more time on our hands. This afternoon, we rode our bikes to the community garden and enjoyed the sunshine.
We've had a lot of rain this month, so the first task was weeding in and around the box. Then, we picked kale, chard, and celery. Unfortunately, the aphids are very happy, especially on the kale. We plants lots of seeds, some of which are very old, so we shall see how much success we have. Today's plantings were: peas, chard, beets, carrots, cucumber, cantaloupe, lima beans, and bush beans. I'd meant for us to plant radishes but forgot. Oops.
Happily, our friends also rode up on their bikes to garden. They were on a mission to find aphids to feed to their new chicks, a corona-break project. We had plenty of aphids to share with them! The hand-off was done in a way that feels silly but is becoming the new normal, where one sets an item down and backs off before the other moves in.
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