Starting to climb

Last weekend while preparing what passes as our backyard for sod, the Swede and I cleared out the fire pit and got the bright idea to put the ashes in the garden. We had no horticultural knowledge to back this up, only the vague idea that plants thrive after a forest fire. 

After a week of steady rain, the garden continues apace albeit without conclusive proof that the ashes did anything.

The peas remain the stars of the show, tentatively reaching for the climbing structures we installed with viney tendrils

The thriving horseradish now towers over the pansies.

New dill makes an overdue appearance