The transitional times of year in the garden are my favorites--not only the eruption of new leaves and buds in the spring but also the gathering in, shrinking, and subsiding into winter of the fall. Having said that, I realize every day is different, a transition into a different phase of its season, with records being broken, just as we broke one a couple of days ago with an 84 degree high, February sliding into March.
As it turned out, this year in the winter garden the racoon was not so active. The temperatures were so mild that the caterpillars came early instead. In fact they were there all along on the charmant cabbage, and now they are on the kale a month early. Since I take pleasure in seeing caterpillars and butterflies on other plants, I shouldn't begrudge them a snack on my vegetables.
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