Yasaibatake's Blog

Update
Feb 6, 2008 | 6:14 PM PST
Tags: winter , strawberries , aphids , Button , pine tree , apple sprout

I'm just plain tired of winter by now. The ice, the snow, the wind…it doesn’t help that most of my winter clothes (and my long coat) are buried in boxes somewhere in the back of my parent’s storage shed. Yes, they’re still there. They’re so far in the back, I couldn’t get to them without unpacking the whole shed, and that simply wasn’t going to happen. At least I have American Idol to pull me through.

So, the garden. The reason we’re all here. Well, honestly, not that much has happened. The strawberries are plagued with aphids, and have been separated from everything else in an attempt to keep the little buggers from spreading. My folks moved some of my plants around for a showing (house goes on the market officially on Monday) and no one remembers where they put the tiny Button seedling, and I have yet to find it. The poor baby is surely wilted and starved by now! Seriously, how do you misplace a plant? Anyway, the one pine tree seedling was thrown out on my mom’s request (it was in her pot, after all, and it was basically dead) and one of the apple seeds (at least, I’m assuming it was the apple seeds, and not a sudden appearance by one of the lemon seeds) has sprouted! It’s nice and strong, standing just under an inch tall and topped with two teeny tiny leaves. So...yay!