Mostly about the garden

I don't plan to devote this entry to the spectacular cold I have, which was mentioned as an aside at the end of my previous post. For the record, I had completely lost my voice by Tuesday evening. My voice is still depleted and I've now entered the incessant coughing phase. I stopped all exercise except for my morning warmup routine given my rundown state.
So to be upbeat, I will devote this entry to garden progress, since I am sorely behind in such entries. I planted my seeds on February 28.
This is what the garden looked like on the 28th of February. In truth the garden doesn't look that much different now, except that the grass has grown and I've been out there with the weed whacker.
My seedlings have grown well. The zucchini are already well past optimum transplant stage and are going in today. I also planted the snow peas last weekend. They are just beginning to emerge. I had better lay some chicken wire over them to protect them from the robins and whitecrown sparrows. Ted heard a quail this morning. They never hang around for long, but it is always nice to hear them, if only for a few days.
I finally got around to cleaning up the blackberries in the garden the end of January. I finally decided they are the trailing and not the upright type, and so wound the long canes through the fence wire rather than trimming them off. We will see how that works out. Note to self, in future don't put off doing this chore. The canes had grown all over and rooted all over, and I had a heck of a time fishing them out of the tall grass without harming them. I still have some left to do on some of the other fences. Urk.