Sunny Weekend, more rain

Friday's ran brought another 1/2 or so to the backyard, Saturday was clear and Sunny, Sunday likewise.

Everything is budding. The grapes that have never produced fruit are planning to primp and show and tease as leafs begin to show. The fig that no one really likes to eat is throwing up green leafs and tiny fruit, the first of both of the spring.

The loquat has new growth and fruit on the way; the berries are showing new growth buds, and the first stirrings in the apples and oak are showing.

In the window, basil is sprouting and yellow squash and zucchini. Another week or two and they can all move outside.

We may have pumpkins on the way, as some pumpkin seeds that were left after the worms in the bin ate the pumpkins from last Halloween have sprouted. Two or three seem to be surviving the transplant to the barrel where nothing grows. (Sigh.) Last year's pumpkins there grew, flowered, but never set fruit. Sigh again.

Will have to eliminate or fix a lot of food crops this summer. (1) growing spaces that are not working or have the wrong crop for the condition (2) food crops we don't eat and (3) food crops that stubbornly refuse to produce -- such as our stuck grape vines.

A black thumb weekend, it seems!