Here’s the saga of my pea plants this year. I bought shelling pea seeds because I forgot to order snap pea seeds and that is what the store had. They were growing really well. I made one small harvest. Shellng peas is fun. Most of them weren’t big enough yet – I needed to wait.…

Here are some photos from a recent walk at the Chicago Botanic Garden And in my backyard I turned over my compost pile and sifted it then I filled up my big pots with the nice fluffy compost. So very satisfying!