In The Time of Plague...

Giovanni Boccaccio's book The Decameron, according to Wikipedia, "is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by seven young women and three young men sheltering in a villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city."

It won't be anything close to the classic Decameron, but I though I could amuse at least myself during this period of "social distancing" by reviving my neglected garden blog and telling a few tales of gardening during the current virus plaguing the world.

Fortunately, gardening is an activity that can be done alone, and if you're a vegetable gardener, it's pretty much a full time occupation, so Cindy is outside right now planting carrots and lettuces.  She won't harvest them for many months, but it does get us looking ahead, toward the future, and whatever the future brings, we'll have something to eat.



Edited to add--It's not my intention to minimize the terrible struggle Italy is having with this deadly and highly contagious disease, but to show that there are positive things we can do while we are responsibly slowing or halting the spread of the disease.  

Carrots

Our Carrots

Cindy brought in an armload of carrots straight from the garden the other day.  

It seems that, whatever the item of produce, there is either nothing much or else lots and lots of it.  

We've also been waiting and waiting for the blueberries on our bushes to ripen, and now we're up to our kneecaps in blueberries.

I guess it's a good thing we both love carrots.  And blueberries.

Blueberry pancakes, yum.