It's finally time to plant outside (although really, with how hot it's getting, you could probably plant in March these days.) The strawberry patch and the mint surived the winter as usual.
This weekend, I planted some annual vegetables: the usual tomatoes and jalapenos, as well as banana peppers this year.
I'm doing something new by putting borage in with my tomatoes, which various sources (neither outright disreputable nor definitively reputable) claim to be good for them. I follow a placebo-based approach to gardening. Under this doctrine, one simply does things that they think seem like they should help. It doesn't really matter if it does or doesn't, because the outcome of gardening is always the same: if the plant does well, you're a world-class gardener, and if it does wrong, it was something that wasn't your fault. (I mean, try to prove otherwise!) If you can trick yourself into thinking you're making any kind of positive effect, you're golden. (This, relatedly, is why I put a pinch of chili powder in everything I bake. It's all about thinking you're doing something extra and special, whether or not it actually makes a difference.)