This early, early morning, after Mike showed me a pair of mating earth worms (apparently they ooze for each other), I found and squished nine slugs lazily munching in our garden.  It’s not exactly fulfilling to see their green insides which used to be our corn or squash.  These guys hide during the day, and indeed the largest slug I’ve ever dealt with startled me from my parsley plant when I was picking some sprigs for a midnight dinner.

I don’t think it’s a slug’s fault, but one of our original cauliflower plants has wilted horribly.  It started just doing that during the day, but didn’t seem to be related to water.  We think something got to its roots.

There are a few new spinach and lettuce seedlings coming up.  And the yellow pear in the ground has its first blooms starting.  This round of tomato plants looks much better than our first lanky ones did.