Sunrise and cabbages

Conor worked until dawn this week and caught a great photo of our hawk in the sunrise.

The brassicas and crucifers are looking nice - but some purpling on these cabbages which are in the 'pool bed' on the lawn. The soil is terrible and I wonder if the manure we added wasn't composted down enough? Any pointers would be helpful. The same cabbage variety is nice and green in other soil, tucked in with the flower beds and at the community garden.

In the tumult that was finals we took a few photos but didn't manage to get any posted. Lots happened in the garden though. The peas are growing tall despite some competition with our new archnemesis, the Japanese knotweed (photo soon). We had to grub out quite a lot of roots around where the shed once stood, and sadly peas were also growing there. Fortunately we planted lots.

We named this extra apple tree by its variety: Baldwin. It just seemed a fitting name. The hostas were already in the garden, and a nice mini maple of some sort. We've been steadily filling these terraces with strawberries.