Will and I just spent an impromptu hour in the garden getting drizzled on, weeding, composting, and generally getting covered in mud. Bed 5 is more or less ready for planting, if it ever gets warm enough. (Maybe next weekend?) We've just begun weeding Bed 7, which looks like it will need a lot less prep--the soil level is pretty high, so I think we'll just be able to weed it and call it good. Overall the soil quality looks pretty good. It's not teeming with critters, but there have been worm, beetle, and other assorted creepy-crawly sightings, so that's hopeful.
Hope everybody gets a chance to go weed some during the week when studying gets crazy and you need a break. If you don't have time to do a lot of work or you're not confident about gardening and are afraid of messing up, first of all, don't worry--at this point it's impossible to mess up, just pull what's in there out, shake the dirt off, and put it on the pile--and second of all, just go over and say hi to the beds. Even just that will clear your head. Or it does mine, anyway. It's one of my kooky theories that the dirt (and later, the plants) will get to know us, and will enjoy the company. But then, I'm sort of a wackadoodle that way.
Just a reminder that when you leave, you should take your trash with you (there's a garbage can on the adjacent playground).
The fact that you are a wackadoodle with this stuff is what I love most about you!
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