Please excuse the missing month

I was all set to get back into gardening at the start of September, which is also the start of Spring. But before I could do anything else we got hammered by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on September 4th 2010.

I'm not going to discuss the earthquake at length here, except to say that it was very traumatic, it put all thoughts of gardening out of my head, and a month later we are still getting powerful aftershocks.

The garden is now edging back into the picture and I did a little bit of cleanup at the weekend.

The strawberries are in bloom!

I dug compost into two of the beds in preparation for growing things. The tall bed will have potatoes and cucumbers just like it did last year, with some carrots in between (assuming they will grow well together -- I need to check my companion planting guide).

The low bed will have tomatoes and other salady things as yet undetermined. It already has pansies and another flower that didn't actually bloom last year, so I've forgotten what it is. Guess we'll find out later this season!