A Stroll Around the Garden

While Robb was busily ripping apart our front steps this weekend, I had a whack at my garden. And I must say, it needed a good whack. The tiny strip of earth between our house and the neighbors' driveway is the site of my fig grove. It's also the home to about ten million weeds, which I valiantly battled this weekend. I find it amazingly difficult to photograph this part of the garden. The figs always look so stunted, when they're actually significantly taller than I am. I grew all these plants from tiny babies , and I'm hoping that we'll get fruit from at least four of the five plants this summer. My dirt-colored kitty Smog is almost invisible on his garden catwalk. The beans I planted a few weeks ago are doing well. It's a good thing that I have plenty of extra baby bean plants, because this bed is a magnet for all our animals. The chickens keep escaping from their part of the garden, and tearing things up. And t