What a way to start the day...

...planting out a tray of sweetcorn seedlings. I raised the Early Gem corn in the tunnel house, where they sprouted and grew quickly. After the lovely rain that fell over night, the soil was in a perfect state to receive the young cornlets, so I got out there before I was pressed into other service (building the frame around the flue, writing the 2012 moon calendar, the laundry etc). The little green things look like expectant children on their first day at school. I expect great things from them. For the rest of the day, I'll be on blackbird watch. Those fiends love to pull things out of the soil with their scimitar-like yellow beaks.