Orders For Next Year's Garden

It's about to be a new year, and it's time for a fresh start!  I do so love fresh starts.  :)

Here's what I ordered from Baker Creek, and why...

• pepper:  caribbean red habanero
• why:  my husband requested it, he loves habaneros and this one is twice as hot as the regular orange type
• bean:  chinese red noodle  
• it has the longest most beautiful beans I've ever seen, and I am particularly excited about this one! These are more for stir-fries or steaming than for eating raw.
• cucumber:  dragon's egg
•  terribly adorable
• melon:  rich sweetness 132
• a high producer of small melons, produces throughout the whole season, and the melons have amazing red and orange stripes
• summer squash:  lemon
• supposed to be one of the highest squash producers out there, and I go through a lot of squash!  Has the best insect resistance for squash, which is great since the earwigs loved my zucchini.
• swiss chard:  perpetual spinach
• it is less chard-like in bitterness, more spinach-like... which is good because I would like to eat it raw, and I found that just 2 large leaves of raw chard at a time gave me a sore throat (probably from the oxalic acid).
• miner's lettuce
• this is something I nibble all the time at my parents' house where it grows wild... a taste of home!  If I'm lucky, I can get it to grow "wild" under most of the existing plants as a groundcover.
• herb:  chervil
•  we had it for the first time on our honeymoon (in Ireland, though the herb is french), have been looking for it ever since... it was delicious enough that I had to ask the chef what it was!
• lettuce mix:  siamese dragon
•  a mix of asian greens... I miss living right next to an asian market
• radish:  purple plum 
• has a milder bite, matures in just 4 weeks, and is purple
• tomato:  riesentraube
•  red, makes a ton of tomatoes, is smaller and good in hanging planters, has hearty flavor that is great as oven-dried tomatoes
• tomato:  black cherry
•  purple, delicious, "wildly" prolific in rainy cool or hot summers (our odd summer weather last year was responsible for everyone's bad tomato season, I hear)... so I'll be planting extras of these to make sure I actually get tomatoes this time around!
• tomato:  sungold
•  orange/red/yellow depending on the plant, very prolific, mild flavor... I tried a sungold hybrid last year, and it had the most potential, so I figured this time I'll try an heirloom sungold.
• tomato:  egg yolk
•  yellow, supposedly outproduces everything, and I hear rumors that it does very well in the Bay Area, plus it's cute as heck!

When I tallied up my original seed bill, it came out to over $50, and Baker Creek is cheap!  I opted to drop dragon's tongue beans, wild strawberries, zucchino, black prince snapdragon, bells of ireland, chocolate bell pepper, cilantro slo-bolt, moonlight nasturtium, oregon sugar pod pea, pepper cress, italiko dandelion, sleeping beauty melon, and 2 other larger purple tomatoes.  'Cause if I'm honest with myself, my garden is SMALL, can I even crowd it that much??  I am writing it here though, so that I will remember these for next year.  Zucchino rampicante had the best reviews I've ever seen for a vegetable... it was hard to let that one go, but there wouldn't truly be space for it!

I also ordered "Clyde's planner" from Baker Creek, since it came so highly recommended... it's like a quick cheat sheet for when to germinate, transplant, and harvest different types of plants, based on your particular frost dates.  A major mistake in last year's garden was not starting seeds indoors, and not starting early enough because we moved to the new house too late in the season.  This year I have the opportunity to do it by the book!  And/or by the planner, as the case may be.  I can also plan out some successive plantings.


The last thing to order is some codling moth traps from Territorial Seed, since I'm not willing to spray pesticides.  The codling moth worms just decimated the apples last year, but they plant eggs while the tree is flowering, so by the time I saw worms it was far too late to do anything about it.  The traps are sticky and filled with codling moth hormones to trap the males... hopefully it will allow me to have edible apples!  The tree did make a ton of apples last year, which were good to average in flavor.

Can't wait for my orders to arrive, for when the real planning will begin.  <3

May your new year of 2011 be full of joy, laughter, and gardeny growth!

Catching Up

Just a quick note... I added in all 15 of the missing "wordless wednesday" photos, from Sept 22nd 'till now.  Whew!

Bye Bye Bonsai

A Blogging "Vacation" is Hopefully Ending

Hello folks... yes, I'm still alive!  And so's the garden.  :)  Well, mostly... the chard and bull's blood beets are still hanging in there through our crazy winter rains, and I keep picking off a leaf or two for delicious salad accents.  And the pearl onions have recently reseeded themselves like grass, so we keep nibbling those baby greens as well.  The nasturtiums were going amazingly strong and started to wrap around the house, but I opted to get rid of them to reduce the aphid population in next year's crops.

Happiest. Aphids. Ever.

I haven't been doing so well with the journal lately, as you have probably noticed.  The reality is that my job/location changes a year ago have left me with 2.5 hours or less of free time per weeknight, which are usually spent either with my husband or blankly staring into space in a failed attempt to reboot my brain.  The result is that I end up doing all of the journal writing and picture-taking (because who wants weekday garden photos taken in the dark like the above photo?) and garden/house maintenance on weekends.

Strangely, in the holiday/anniversary/birthday season of the last 3 months, I have not had a single free weekend day to do this!  As naturally unsocial as I am, I'm not sure how this is even possible.  Anyway, life became far too busy, and two things had to go:  blogging and my sanity.  Blogging minus the sanity would have just been "raving," and nobody likes to hear that.  Or do they?  Next journal idea:  Voices In My Hair.

I am expecting to get back into the swing of blogging soon, in the new year when weekends will be my own again.  The prospect of having time to do all the menial accumulating tasks like laundry and deep-cleaning and responding to emails and getting my hands dirty in the garden... it fills my heart with song!  In all honesty, I crave being a productive science-minded mom running her own home more than the current reality of being a harried grumpy sleep-deprived scientist running an understaffed lab.  Someday I'll make this happen with a home business... someday.

Someone made this 2.5' pumpkin by engraving it when it was young, and then they gave it to my brother-in-law who teaches grade-school science.  Science DOES indeed rock!  I totally want to do this project.

There are lots of photos of the garden's progress since October, so I will fill in the gaps in the blog as well.  Boy, are there stories to tell!  I was just going through the Baker Creek heirloom seed catalog this morning, and I'm about to order some new and strange seeds... the theme for next year's garden appears to be "purple" and "dragon."  You'd think that since my ultimate goal is to actually have food to eat from such small garden space, the theme would be "tried & true" plants, but noooooo, I just have to be weird and go for the Dragon's Egg cucumber.  I suppose the biggest goal is really just to have fun and get a little better at growing things each year.  :)
I do need to get some good producers in the garden this year though...

So my question to you is:
What is your most productive garden plant?

Aphids On Nasturtium

Still Flowering, Somehow

Time To Tear It Down

Nasturtium Invasion, Part II

A Hummingbird's Gift

Garlics for Planting

The Leaves Keep Coming

Onion Seed

Ginger Witch

In the spirit of the season, I'd like to introduce you to the Ginger Witch.  Last year around this time I was peeling and slicing ginger in bulk to freeze (it's easy to put in tea like that), and noticed something odd about the first piece in my hand!

I can almost hear her cackling...

Hope your holiday is adequately spooky and lots o' fun!

Nom Nom Nom

Mantis Moves By Night

It's a little creepy with the porch light shining from behind and glowing through his limbs, eh?

The cat meowed until I came outside a while back, and there I saw a rather large praying mantis on the screen at face level with the cat.  I thanked her with a rub and ran for the camera, and then watched the mantis walk right off the screen onto the glass!  It's pretty amazing that it could hold on so easily.  I'm glad to see another mantis around... this is the third one I've seen (all very adult-size) since 2 weeks after they hatched, when they all became either good at hiding or dinner (for each other, not dinner for me!).  Speaking of Grumpy Cat, why do cats tend to bring me live toads and bugs??  I thought they were supposed to enjoy showing off their dead mice instead. 

The photo with flash was especially spine-tingling.

 "Sweet dreams!"

Female Flower

Three Doves

Jalapeno!

Powdery Mildew

Sungold

Grant's Gardening Poem

Rather than have a Wordless Wednesday photo, I thought I would display someone else's poetic garden writings (with permission, of course).

      Kendra, armed with her garden and cat 
      Treads the green between can and can't 
      Blooms to one side, brooms to the other 
      Touching life, a whispering earth Mother 
      Encourages, discovers, enthralls and provides 
      A calm to beseech in all things alive 
      A bid to sink toes deep into warm soil 
      Steeped with the fragrance of sweat, blood and toil

Thanks, Grant!  Your wordsmithery is always a delight.

All A-Twitter

A few people have heartily suggested that I start a Twitter account, and link it to the blog.  Since I can't bear to see my friends and readers disappointed in my lack of technological advancement, I have given in, and I have given it a predictable yet appropriate name.

Here it is:  http://twitter.com/LeavesInMyHair

A random bonzai photo... just because.

I do need to expand a bit, make new blogging friends (garden-related and otherwise), have more interaction in the blogosphere... perhaps Twitter can help with that.  My greatest motivation to get posts out on time is knowing that there are a few of you out there who are looking forward to more of my gardeny blathering.  :)

Haha, I actually said blogosphere.  Dork!

Do you have a Twitter, blog, Etsy store, comic, etc?  Advertise here, and I will definitely check it out. 

Where is Grumpy Cat?

 Grumpy Cat demands affection... NOW.

Lately she is Absent Cat.  On friday afternoon I got to come home early (it's our one perk at work, when we have 3-day weekends), so I managed to catch my neighbor in front of her house.  I took the opportunity to ask her about Grumpy Cat... does she know if it has a name, if anybody owns it?  I said that the cat had suddenly taken a liking to me, so I was hoping to give it little treats if it wasn't getting love anywhere else.  The neighbor said that nobody on our street knows who the cat belongs to, that she sees it around often too (crossing along the top of the back fence).  Then she wouldn't meet my eyes, and said that the cat was "pretty wild" and kind of stuttered and looked sad and said she was glad that I had been able to form a bond with the cat... oh, and that it was good for the cat too.  On one hand I was happy that it didn't belong to anyone (egads, am I subconsciously adopting her?), but on the other hand it definitely felt like the neighbor was hiding something.

Facts I know about Grumpy Cat:
1.  He is really a she.  It looks like she's a "fixed" she.
2.  She is comfortable indoors and prefers to be there.  Until she decided she liked me, she was always peeking in the bedroom door, rather than the living room door, as though looking for someone.
3.  She loves tuna.
4.  She is ridiculously afraid of hoses and spraying water.
5.  It took her over 6 months to trust me... and most animals trust me immediately. 
6.  She acts like our backyard is, and always has been, HER domain.  She is protective of the house's inhabitants.
7.  There is a little spot on her side that, when rubbed, makes her flip over in hilarious ecstasy.

My theories on the feline's origins are:
1.  Grumpy Cat belongs to the neighbor, and she was embarrassed or weirded out that I was befriending her outdoor, unfriendly, collarless cat (hence the "hiding something"?). 
2.  A sheltered Grumpy Cat belonged to the elderly couple who owned the house before us (they owned it since it was built in 1984).  She was "released" outdoors when they left (or died... I still haven't explained the translucent image of a white-haired, muumuu-wearing woman seen a few times in the backyard and bedroom!).  The lady who rented the house for 3 months between us and the original owners chased the cat out and sprayed it with the hose, thus causing it to be traumatized.  Neighbor was very close friends with the owners (which is true, she has told me this).
3.  Grumpy Cat really lives in the adjacent cul-de-sac... our street doesn't really socialize with their street, so no one here would know the cat's origins.

Either way, Grumpy Cat is now missing.  Did the neighbor bring the feline indoors, to protect it from me turning in the "unowned" neighborhood cat?  I haven't seen her since, and her pattern for the past few weeks had been to wait for me outside in the afternoons, and hang out under the zen bench at least every weekend morning.  I had broken down and finally got her some real cat treats (rather than give her just tuna... which I hear isn't that good for cats)... now I have no mammal to give them to.  I wish I'd asked the neighbor more questions!

Crape Myrtle wishes it could be just a little bit taller

Tomato Hornworm

I called my Mom this weekend, and she described these finger-thick "hornworms" which are chewing the heck out of her tomato plants.  Light green, single spike on the hind end, terribly cute, and ravenous appetite.  Oh dear, my half-inch long ones on the Mr. Stripey tomato are suddenly not so cute.  They're only the thickness of a pencil lead, and since they're so tiny and weren't doing very much damage I was just going to leave them be.  I rushed to the garden to check... and yes, they've doubled size in a day, and both of them had taken out an entire leaf already.

 Nom nom nom... 

When I first noticed one, it was less than half that size, and the spike was towering straight up, almost half the length of its body.  And yep, you may have guessed it from the photo... I have removed both of the hornworms from the tomato plants, and they are now living happily in a little storage tub with plenty of tomato greens.  I'm such a sucker for creepy crawly things, and can't stomach squishing them (haha, that's what husbands are for, right?  And he's not home yet).  So now they're pets for the time being.  At least the Mr. Stripey tomato has enough leaves to spare so far... jeez, these things are voracious.  Hopefully I can support one long enough to see it turn into a Sphinx moth (otherwise known as Hawk or Hummingbird Moth)... should only take 3-4 weeks.  I will have to keep an eye on my plants, though... where there's 2, there's probably more!

Here's a nifty website that describes them:  http://www.vegedge.umn.edu/vegpest/hornworm.htm

My Dad sent me a few photos he took of one of their hornworms... it is beautiful!

 How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail...

... and pour the waters of the Nile, on every golden scale.

It also really, really reminds me of the caterpillar in Alice In Wonderland.  Something about the blues and greens in the photo is magical!  And despite what he's done to the yellow pear tomato, those eye spots are amazing.  Alas, due to his transgressions he has moved on to the, uh, great tomato field in the sky.  Here's hoping for a speedy recovery of my parents' tomatoes!


What's the most destructive pest you've had in your garden?

Nasturtium Invasion

The nasturtiums had a large growth spurt after I fed them with fish emulsion.  I have them in last year's strawberry pot, and I was hoping it'd become a bush of peppery salad additions.  Instead, only the climbing type survived (Spitfire), and long vines began invading the path.  We left on a 3-day vacation, and returned to see that a vine had grown across the entire bottom of the doorway!  I kept pushing them aside, and wrapping them around the pot.  Then as a joke I hung a few strands over the porch light... by morning the nasturtiums were jubilant in their newly found access to sunlight, and within a few days there was a flush of flowers. 

So I hung more, and more, and eventually some grew long enough to reach a hook above meant for christmas lights.  I had thought the sudden change in position would stress the plant, but it only keeps getting happier.

Streeeeetch!

You can see the small terracotta strawberry pot in the bottom right-hand corner in the above picture.  I hardly ever water it... the only explanation is that the roots must've gone down into the soil where the drip system is active, so I am loathe to move the pot.

Where all the birdseed goes

Bonus lost post from April: Daffodils Heavy With Rain

The storm appears to have weighed down the daffodils

Hummingbird Investigation

I had no idea that hummingbirds were so territorial!  This weekend I was cleaning up my onion and garlic harvest whilst sitting outside, and had the opportunity to get a glimpse of hummingbird society.

There is one hummingbird who “owns” the backyard. At least, he does now that I am keeping the feeder full and have a new feeder with perches.  A week after I put up the new one, I kept going outside to see what all the squeaking was about.

Mmmm, tasty.

The old hummingbird feeder was a gift I was very grateful for, but its plastic broke down in the sunlight and it was missing all its petals and perches. The new feeder (it's just from Target) is metal and glass, and has the added benefit of being easily cleaned because the whole bottom section comes apart.

 He has HUGE EYES, wow.

Anyway, this hummingbird will sit in a favorite place where he can keep an eye on the feeder and the rest of the backyard, wobbling and licking and constantly scanning for intruders. That favorite place is on the top of a tomato cage near the back door, so I have a pretty good view. I was surprised to find that he spends more time chasing off competitors than he does eating! Literally every minute, he is chasing someone else off into the neighbor's yards, and then he swoops back, takes a "victory sip" of nectar, and resumes his position. Any time spent not chasing is spent sitting and looking very drunk and very cute, or energetically squeaking.

Sunday I had the opportunity (and patience) to hide underneath his spot to sneak a video. It was actually difficult to take any at all, because I had to reach my arm very close and he doesn't like a lot of movement from the humans.

Our hummingbird is the fattest one of all. :)

Anybody know why hummingbirds look like they're experiencing vertigo when they sit down? Until someone enlightens me, I am going to assume it's just because they're so high-energy they can't be still.

Here is the recipe I use for the feeder: ½C sugar, 2 cups water.

I refrigerate the leftovers in a mason jar for a week or two... the new feeder isn't drippy, so the nectar lasts a lot longer. I rinse the feeder with white vinegar between uses to get rid of any mold spores... the feeder isn't dishwasher-safe which would be nice, but I hear you're not supposed to use any soap in there anyway.

Do you have a hummingbird feeder in your backyard?

Peeking Over

Haha!  This weekend I went outside and saw this sunflower peeking over from my neighbor's yard.  It is full size but is along the edge of their house across an otherwise empty yard twice as big as mine, which is why the perspective makes it look so tiny in the photo.

Ever get the feeling you're being watched?

Hmmm... now I want to grow sunflowers too!  They're so cheery.  But I have a feeling that Scrub Jay would peck the heck out of it before I could harvest anything (which is what is happening to a friend's sunflower this week)... he already shakes all the smaller seed out of his bird feeder to get to the sunflower seeds, and is pecking apples off the tree.

Pon Charrd

Ah, chard.  A fail-safe, easy to grow, prolific, year-round producer.  Or is it?

I planted the darn things way back on May 7th, so they've had 3.5 months to grow.  Several varieties too... 2 square feet of vulcan (dark red), one of giant fordhook (white), one of bright lights (yellow, pink, white).  Each square foot was planted with multiple seedlings, but I was going to thin it down to 5 each for a total of 20 plants.  I was going to have salad greens (and stir-fry greens, and smoothie greens) aplenty, more than my husband and I could eat.  Even after a few replantings, all I have left over is just one delicate little vulcan chard!

5 inches tall after over 3 months of effort.

It is true that I started the plants too late... by the time the seedlings were surviving the digging cat's attacks, it was much warmer and chard is a cool-weather plant that prefers to be planted 2 weeks after the last frost.  I really, really want it to work... so today I started a bunch of seeds for transplanting, and I will just try again.  And again.  And again.  I must have chard.  I WILL have chard!  The season will end in violence if I can't grow a healthy patch of chard.

Despite my lack of success, this plant is still a beautiful little splash of color in my first real garden.  It is not attracting any pests at all, and the contrast between veins and leaves has me a bit giddy.  If only one chard could come up, I'd have it be the vulcan.  :)

Live long and prosper, little one!

And yes, I am fully aware that "vulcan" in this case is more related to fire than Star Trek.

Someone Has Impeccable Aim

Grumpy Cat Needs a New Name

On sunday, something amazing happened. Out of nowhere, Grumpy Cat walked over to me, vigorously head-bumped for several minutes to mark me as his own, asked for petting, and then in a flash flipped upside down in my lap and curled into a happy little ball, contented and dazed with the neck-scratching.  He's solid black, except for one very cute tuft of white on his belly which I had never noticed before... reminds me of my first dog as a child, named Star because she was all black with one small white spot on her forehead.

Grumpy Cat frequently exposes his belly to me now... a sign of trust and submission in most mammals.

Why is this amazing? When we first moved in, 6 months and 8 days ago, Grumpy Cat would flee the backyard as quickly as possible any time we would so much as open the back door. There was no collar, and he obviously spent most of his time in the backyard (in particular under the Zen bench), but he looked pretty well-fed. Over a few months of pretending like he didn't matter or even exist (which, I've learned, is a good way to get the neighbors' cats to take a sudden and excruciatingly desperate interest in me), he began warily tolerating my presence. Eventually I began leaving bits of tuna out for him which made him not so wary, and eventually he began almost not flinching as I petted his head once or twice while he ate. He still wouldn't eat if my husband put one foot out the back door.

Earlier this week I had a friend over, and we went out into the backyard... Grumpy Cat turned into your stereotypical Halloween cat, arching his back, raising hair, hissing and showing fang very pointedly at the new intruder to the backyard. While I hadn't ever seen that reaction from him, it wasn't at all unexpected. Then yesterday was the next time I saw him, and he very suddenly decided that he likes me. A lot. Even without food. I had won the battle of wills! I came into the house laughing and elated and danced with my husband in the kitchen... whew, I need a cuddly pet more than I'll admit.

Grumpy Cat will have none of that camera nonsense.

I have some hesitations about the cat:
- I don't want to “steal” a stray cat if it's someone else's pet, or make it too dependent on me by feeding it too often which makes it less likely to visit its real home. To feed, or not to feed...
- It is not a good idea to fall so deeply in love with the cat so that it is too hard to leave him behind when we move (which may be in a year, maybe 5 years).  It may be too late.
- Was the violent reaction to the visiting friend the catalyst for this loving change in behavior?  And how?  Is this an emotionally unpredictable kitty?

Grumpy Cat still looks evil... and less fluffy.

Ahem.  I just looked up how to tell cat sexes apart, lifted a tail, and figured out that he is really a she! Got to love the internet.

I have never, ever met such a resistant feline. But now I'm awash in endorphins from bonding with her. It might be love.  I'm in too deep. I'm thinking up actual pet names.


Do you have any cat advice to give me?
Thus far, my pet expertise is only in the area of reptiles, amphibians, fish, dogs, and rodents.

__________

Other posts related to the tale of Grumpy Cat:

Feeding The Cat  7/19/10
Getting Medieval  7/5/10
There's A Creature Lurking In The Garden!  6/25/10

Why Tomatoes, Why???

My tomatoes keep dropping flowers.  According to my coworker, they do this when nighttime temperatures reach below 50 degrees fahrenheit, but it hasn't been that cold.  Perhaps it is a lack of sunlight?  This is what it looks like:

 All crunchy and droppy

She also says that she has a ton of medium-sized green tomatoes on her plants... I have only 5 tiny ones.  Some of my plants are HUGE though!  Check out this current view of the raised beds.

"Mr. Stripey" in the back is definitely a monster. 

Ironically, it is the smallest, weakest looking tomato plant that has the only fruit which is beginning to ripen.  It may be because it's in the clay pot, which warms the roots more and dries out faster... perhaps the plant is in its death throes, trying to reproduce in its last moments?

 

A bit pathetic, yet edible.

As of tonight, I will start spraying the flowers with Blossom Set in hopes that they will stay... it's a hormone that should override the plants' desires to drop flowers in the cold and wait for warmer times.  It's my first year living in this area, but I have a feeling that it won't get too much warmer than this (isn't it summer yet?).  Help me Blossom Set, you're my only hope for ripe delicious summer tomatoes!

How are your tomatoes doing this year, and do you  have any advice for me?

Cucumber vines: So delicate, yet so strong

A Look at the Lemon Cucumber

Hooray, they are alive!

And what's that peeking out from under a big floppy leaf?

Quick, turn into a cuke!

Originally I grew some from seed and then transplanted them to the raised beds.  This result was pretty sad, and they died.  I replanted them with store-bought ones, and they languished for a long time, but lately they are suddenly hitting one growth spurt after another.

Hit me once... hit me twice!

The way that these little vines shot out overnight reminded me of the beginning of "Toxic Love" in Ferngully where Hexxus comes out of his slime form and grabs two poles.

(see segment from 0:14 to 0:21)

What??  They really did spring out like that.

Purple Podded Pole Beans

Whoa, I didn't know I had vegetables ready for eating yet!  I had been so focused on the sad, unproductive tomatoes/pumpkins/zucchini that I didn't notice these shadowy pods lurking beneath their foliage.

Soooooo pretty....

These things are delicious!!  They're green inside and lose the purple if you cook them, so I just ate a few raw.  I know I've mentioned the superior taste of home-grown peas before... just like the peas, these purple "green" beans are equally tastier and juicier than their supermarket green bean counterparts.  I had grown some blue lake pole beans (a traditional green bean) in pots last year, and they don't compare in taste to these more vibrant heirlooms.  I suppose it's a blessing that my blue lake beans didn't do well and that I had to replace them with something new from rareseeds.com.  A review on that website says that they'll save the extra pods at the end of the season and let them dry, and the dried beans make for delicious soups all winter too.  Yum!  We'll probably eat all of them raw, but I will save a few seeds anyway... since it's an heirloom, I'll be able to start new plants next year for free.

Even if they don't produce a lot this summer (I did give them a pretty late start since the blue lake beans didn't work out), I will definitely have them in the garden next year too.  They're climbing the trellis really well, and they've been easy, with a very high germination rate and producing very vigorous seedlings that needed no special attention.  And let's face it, in such a small backyard, vertical is the way to go!

Can't wait until my husband gets home from his trip... it'll be hilarious to surprise him with the vibrant beans!

What're the most oddly-colored veggies in your garden?