The weather forecast said that there'll be a shower later today, some tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow -- pretty much the rest of the week looks like it'll be wet. On the plus side, this means I won't have to bike out to the field to water the things I just planted on Saturday. On the downside, that means that the ground will be squishy for a while yet and I don't know if we (that is, the club members and I), would be able to schedule in a garden work day before mid-February.
I suppose I can always just tell people to be ready to get muddy, except people tend to not like getting wet and messy and will therefore not show up to the work day, therefore negating the entire point of scheduling a work day in the first place.
Took another picture of the garlic chives I've planted about a week ago today. One of the pot has started germinating, but that's also the pot that I spilled a little, so the seeds are closer to the surface than the other pot (and therefore the seeds that are popping up get to cheat a little). I'll have to see which one ends up looking hardier, because that'll be the pot that I stick out in the field to brave the elements, the herbivory, and the varying amounts of neglect.
Random info: Being alive means being metabolic, and being metabolic means having loads of enzymes. Most enzymes work only when they're in an aqueous environment, and so when the biochemists need to do an experiment that needs an enzyme that can function under relatively dry environment they sometimes go look for the enzymes in the plant seeds, because plant seeds are fairly dehydrated, and yet they're still metabolizing (slowly but surely, which is why really old seeds don't germinate -- because they've used up their reservoir of food and so has no energy left to germinate) which means they have special enzymes that can handle relatively dry environments!
My goodness that's a long sentence.
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