Bring out your dead...

Monday evening (the 11th), after finally hermetically sealing the garden against chickens and other nasty foul (down to the size of a 1"x1" square), we planted the plants that were living the the laundry room. Here is the plan according to which they were planted:

Here they are, all happy to go into the rich, fertile soil:

Here is the proto-vet, putting them into the rich fertile soil:

And here is what they look like after less than a week in the rich, fertile soil:

You will notice a lack of green stuff in much of the garden boxes. That is because many of the plants have turned white and died. This is quite disappointing. One possible explanation for their failure to thrive (failure to live?) is the excessive heat we have experienced this week. It has been above 90 on several days.

This reminds us of a story told to us by a good friend. He was planting grapes one spring; planting grapes apparently looks like burying sticks in the ground. His neighbor, seeing this, remarked "I see you are saving time by planting things that are already dead."