The Greening

 
 
4/8/98 
The rains came to water the rabbit patch just as I  
finished sprinkling the seeds. The Greening has  
begun! Soon the garden will match the fields and  
lawns that have given a different shade to everything,  
like wearing green sunglasses. I saw someone  
mowing their lawn yesterday on the way to the feed  
mill. I quickly rolled down my window and slowed  
the truck to catch a wiff of the first cutting,  
Ummmm, smells like watermelon! 
 
For my bunnies, I planted endive, chinese cabbage,  
buttercrunch lettuce, kale and swiss chard so far. I'll  
also transplant some iceberg lettuce seedlings, and I  
hope to add some black-seeded simson leaf lettuce  
and mustard greens to the same patch. The rabbits  
don't mind sharing their patch with us, after all, I  
plant it. But I confess, they get more of it than we do. 
 
I didn't get the potatoes and onions planted though,  
should have done that instead of the greens I  
suppose. The weatherman says it's going to be  
raining for two or three days, the greens should be  
sprouting by then. Maybe the brassicas will be ready  
to go outside too, cabbage, brocolli, cauliflower, and  
brussel sprouts. Man Oh Man, I can't wait to see the  
entire garden glowing with green!