Well, not quite. But I have been feeling incredibly guilty about tossing out my kitchen scraps. I recycle everything that the blue box truck will take (notice I didn’t say "everything that I can"?) and so, apart from a bit of plastic wrap and non-recyclable packaging, the only thing going into my kitchen garbage is food waste. And, like I said, I’ve been feeling pretty guilty about that for the past few months. But no more! This morning I phone the hazardous waste depot to see if they had any composters and, while he initially told me they were sold out for the season, he then found another five as he was talking to me and so B and I went over and picked one up. I’m rather excited! I haven’t yet pulled it out of the box but I’ll maybe do that later this afternoon, after B’s nap. I know I could have made one but I like that this one is all contained and I shouldn’t have too much trouble with raccoons or other critters. Besides, it was only $25 total and I’m sure I could have spent more than that trying to cobble one together myself. (And yes, I’ve googled the many varieties of composters one can make.) Home Depot and Canadian Tire sell the same one for at least double the price so I don’t feel I did too badly.

I also called the last local garden centre looking for an acorn squash plant and they don’t have any left either. I guess mine is destined to be single this year. A little annoying since the second one I had was seconds away from being put in the ground when B accidentally snapped his main stem. I was poking around the garden when we got home with the composter, pulling a few tiny weeds (very few and far between so they’re very easy to spot and remove). I noticed a rather large clump of tiny green leaves next to one of my tomato plants. I don’t remember if it is one of my own starters or whether it’s one I bought from a centre but it turns out that the leaves were a very densely packed golf ball-sized clump of what I can only guess are tomato sprouts.

I, again, feel guilty because I could wash them and eat them but I’m not 100% sure what they are (what else would they be though, right?). The sprouts that came most freely out of the dirt have been dumped in an empty peat pot along with all the loose seeds. The ones I had to dig out are mixed with the dirt they retained in another otherwise-empty peat pot.

My tomato plants aren’t growing all that quickly as yet but they’ll be along shortly. My green peppers are thriving (I should take a picture) and I can see them growing daily. They seem to be loving all this rain we’ve been getting. The peppers were also the only plants that didn’t at all mind being in the house for so long after they sprouted. I need to get some sort of trellis up for my cucumbers and zucchini. I’m a little worried about that bed being dappled shade in the morning and only getting about five or so hours of good sun in the afternoon but we’ll see; what doesn’t work this year will be changed next year.

And I’m off to reel mow the back yard while B naps, I think. The grass is a bit damp still but I’m working days the next three days and won’t get much chance to do it until next week, when it will be that much longer.