I keep hearing the term "Juneuary." Our gardens are in strange ways here on the West Coast. Our greens are bolting before they even really begin, and all squash varieties have it backwards with female flowers blooming without any males in sight. I've even seen ads requesting male squash flowers for hand pollination... But there are tiny triumphs: a handful of cherries every morning, a few radish or strawberries here and there. And the rest just on the cusp: tomatoes ripening, potatoes growing, peas towering. Alex built an awesome hot house from old glass we found under the deck, so the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, basil and tobacco are thriving. We have a lot just hanging on in the garden. Once the sun comes... it will be glorious. Right? This year, we're still nowhere near the amount of food we'd like to grow and we still have little pockets of the yard to clear and plant in, but for now I think we're doing all right. We've done a lot of companion planting this year: squash, potatoes, nasturtium, and borage together. Onions, leeks, potatoes, kale and beans together. Peas and radishes. Strawberries, borage, potatoes and kale. Cabbage and rosemary. Next year we'll add more companion planting and try planting with the moon cycle. The Farmers Market is full of garlic scapes, carrots, greens. It's all just starting...