First harvest!!

I (Rebekah) ate our two first radishes today!! How exciting and totally delicious.

We have been at war recently with a certain groundhog with cat-like climbing abilities and an appetite like a grad student stress-eating during general exams. It's nuts. We saw with our own eyes (and wish we could have filmed) the fattest groundhog climb a 7 foot chain-link fence like it was nothing. NOTHING!! It may be a cathog. I don't know. He has gobbled up so many of our community garden friends' plants, but no one is doing anything about it. I talked to a few others and all the advice they gave me was "just make your garden less appealing than someone else's!" Yeah, that'll solve the problem. They're all hippies. It's against the law to trap and relocate the animal, and it's useless trying to kill it seeing as we would be shunned and forever rejected by our gardening peers. Worse, they might secretly destroy our plants in the name of revenge! All we could do is ruin the animal's home (under the shed--don't ask), build up taller fences of our own, and then fence in the plants he's really into: beans and squash. I heard from another hippy that he'll start eating tomatoes once they start growing. I'm thinking about getting a battery-opperated radio and keep it on NPR all day and night, but then again, I would be disturbing The Zen of Gardening.

Here are a few pictures from today:
Tomato row! Way in the back: peppers.

Onions in front, radishes behind, then carrots, then more room for peppers.

Beans!

Stop playing with your food, Matthew!

That's better.

Next on our list: strawberry and cherry picking at a local farm!