Jean's Blog

Those of you who are gardeners know what an intense time of year this is. Yesterday I put in my first vegetables–a little early for Pennsylvania, but I planted crops that like the cold: lettuce and radishes and am hoping that the string beans and cukes aren’t freaked out by a little cool weather. It’s a lot like the writing process–messing around in the dirt, adding manure, and waiting to see what will happen. Would love to collect gardening tips if anyone has them to share. Here’s one from me, pulled off NPR: add eggshells to your tomato plants as they grow better with the additional calcium. Jean

Here in PA it’s almost mid-April and just in the last few days the trees have burst into bloom, the grass is green and the air smells wonderful. My flowering quince is showing off and I’ve got fantastic tulips (which I tricked the rabbits out of eating by covering them with cheesecloth and clothes pins–quite odd looking but it worked!)

Henry and I have been hard at work at our agent proposal and it should be ready to go out to my top two this week. Henry had a great time outside this afternoon and now he’s sound asleep in his cat bed. I’m reading “Peony in Love” by Lisa See who does a great job of writing about China in the 17th century. Makes me very glad I don’t have bound feet!