Notes From Zone 4

I got tired of fighting with Moveable Type. Arguably the problems with the garden journal could be due to my hacking on it. However, this journal, and Crustimony Proseedcake are both totally stock. Any yup, not only are they not valid per the doctype, they are not even well formed XHTML. Mumble curse mutter swear.

It was pretty clear that it would be no more trouble to just spit out the import format than it would be to get something that XSLT wouldn’t barf at, so I blew the dust off the camel book and went to work.

I now have everything into to test journal, but there are a few glitches, so I need to make one more pass at the script. I’ll post it here (and maybe moveabletype.org) when I write the version for stock journals.

Meanwhile, if you use MoveableType. FIX THE TEMPLATES to produce well-formed output before it bites you in the tail.

What a hit these species tulips are turning out to be. Even with the ones eaten by the mice, tons of them are coming up. (Note to self for next year. Figure out something else to try to keep all of the critters away from the yummy bulbs.)

We planted 450 bulbs or something like that in the fall, all on one day, and wow, the results are just spectacular.

We had some out there already, but this year is a much nicer display than last year.

I’m going to be watching the Van Engelen website very closely! They come online with their new stuff at the end of the month.

We’ve got lots of room out there for many more bulbs.