Until this past week anything resembling garden work had been limited to planting a catalpa tree and a Norway maple tree in our back yard and replacing a shrub near the house. The two trees replace some of the trees that were lost in the big windstorm that hit on July 16th, 2016. I'll admit that three years is too long to wait to get this done but they were finally planted a month ago and seem to be thriving. Since then, like many of our farmer friends, I've been waiting for a stretch of dry weather to get going in the garden...
