Foggy vineyard

The grape vines are really leafing out now. It won't be long before the flowers come out. Not that you'd know, because grape flowers are tiny and difficult to see without being up close. What you can see are the flowers on the plants in between the vines. This parcel, from the center and toward the left in the photo, was planted with a natural fertilizer a couple of years ago. It's a kind of clover that, I think, fixes nitrogen in the soil where it's planted. The vine rows to the right of center are not planted with the clover. It looks like both parcels were treated with an herbicide around the vine trunks where the grasses are brown.

The vineyard on a foggy morning.

My trip to the market yesterday was successful. I found geraniums that I wanted and brought home fourteen of them for the deck and the kitchen window box. I also got a small flat of impatiens. They like to grow on our north window's sill, but we haven't seen impatiens for several years now. Something happened to make them scarce, but I never really understood what it was. Whatever it was, I hope these will be healthy and happy through the summer. Now it's time to pot them all up.