first garden work in months

My first trimester sickness is gone, and with it went my stamina and motivation. But today I dragged myself back to the garden. It felt great. I cleaned out dead squash vines, basil, peppers, and old beets. I dug up all my dahlia and gladiolus corms. And I turned over my potato bed. I forgot that I left a ton of fingerlings in the dirt! And although something ate the tops off all my sweet potato plants, I found one baby white sweet.

I cleared a nice space to plant some hardneck garlic from my friend, Shawn. There are still a couple Swiss chard plants happily growing and some carrots left, too. I still have to contend with the tomato bed. There are a bunch of cages twined together and tangled with 32 dead tomato plants. It's a mess.