The garden is growing...

The garden is coming along well!  The chives are doing their thing and settling in.  Cath put in a ton of work prepping the garden with more tilling, soil, weed barrier fabric and mulch.  We tried out our chipper/shredder and while we still have all our fingers and toes we were a bit taken aback at how powerfully the chipper throws the chips and how little comes from a half dozen buckthorn trees/bushes.  There's no shortage of buckthorn, dogwood and other bits to clean up so there'll be more woodchips to come.  One rhubarb took...and something dug up the other...we hilled those spots a bit more and replanted more.