8r4dsfeets A bit of thatching as we kick into some #garden time and #yardwork

8r4d I plucked the radish crop out from the #garden in its entirety noting that about 30% of the plants resulted in #goodeats while the rest simply hadn’t matured. I’ll reseed and try for a second late-summer round. But tonight… we feast!

squwetchy Back in my own backyard I tried sketching the #garden bed and my tomato plants. This was a multi-step #sketch with first laying down a rough big picture, then painting, then adding shadows, and finally after it dried deciding I wanted to add a bunch more ink detail into to central subject, the bed itself, which definitely makes it pop…

8r4d Calling our #garden this season “the best one in years” is a low, low bar, but even so the investment we made to turn our backyard dirt patch into a raised bed is turning out to be a positive win. The slightly better access to putting the weeds in arms-reach has turned out to have a massive effect on the overall health of the garden itself. So it looks better, grows better, and is already producing!

8r4d Late #spring and the #radish spirit has already visited our #garden

8r4d I get a thirty minute timer to tackle the weeds in the #garden… then the sprinklers attack!