Spring in the gardens

Here's the main culprit in your veggie seedlings disappearing! Plan ahead to protect new plantings- established plants can often survive some herbivory, but seedlings are only a few tasty bites away from obliteration.

Sparrow eating broccoli (in flower)

This is a romanesco- a broccoli/ cauliflower relative that is so amazingly beautiful. The spirals remind me of aliens, drill bits, and Fibonacci sequences. What a cool thing to grow in your garden! I found this in one of our community garden plots last month: