Today was a fairly busy day, in a calm sort of way. I woke up before anyone else (even the dogs stayed in bed when I got up!) and decided to have my tea in the front yard. I thought I could just relax, enjoy the sun, the tea and my current book (Stephen Kings Bag of Bones).
No such luck. Figures. Shortly after sitting down, I decided to open up the wagons and see how they were doing. The 4X5 was doing great! Everything (spinach, garlic, onions, beets and snap peas) is growing like crazy! The only issue was that our peas are leaning forward (toward the light filtering through the plastic, I assume) instead of grabbing on to the nice little wire support structure Tool Lady built for them! So, what did I do? I tied ’em up! A little bit of yarn goes a long way. Hopefully in a week or so I will be able to untie them because they will be holding on all by themselves!
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| This busy little helper is not one of ours (we are still anxiously awaiting our buzzing package) but was a welcome visitor in our garden today! Pollinate, pollinate, pollinate!!! |
Next up was the 4X6 bed that was stripped of all its kale last week. After letting it rest for all of a week, I decided it was time to put some babies/seedlings in there. Here’s the thing…I started a ton of tomatoes, peppers, jalapenos, lemon cucumbers, basil and peanuts (as well as several other veggies) in flats in the dining room. However, we do not have a grow light and this year all the seedlings are growing super sloooooowwww. So, I figured that the wagons are getting pretty hot these days (soon they will be too hot for the spinach and lettuce…it’s time to plant some seeds in the shade…), why not throw some of the struggling seedlings in there, in dirt and warmth that might make them happy, and see what happens??? So that’s just what I did!
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| All the babies (22 seedlings in all + 4 meanderings rows of carrots) in amongst what’s left of the kale (which is sprouting new leaves already) and the lettuce up front. |
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| 1 of 8 Lemon Cucumber seedlings I planted. 4 seedlings are four weeks old and 4 are 2 weeks olds, so if all works well we’ll have some succession planting/harvesting!!! |
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| Baby peppers |
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| Baby Jalapenos |
I crammed lots of plants in one bed while still trying to give them all enough space. I am really super hopeful they will all survive! We are looking at a good week of forecasted lows in the mid 30s to low 40s. Add that to the plastic sheeting holding in the heat and the hay helping out a bit, my fingers are crossed!!! If not, however, I still have one of each of these seedlings (minus the cherry tomatoes) in my dining room, limping along.
Here’s the official list of what I planted today:
Lemon Cucumbers (8)
Tomatoes (1 of each)
Yellow Pear
Martinos’ Roma
Brandywine
Italian Heirloom
Yellow Taxi
Cherry Tomatoes (1 of each)
Brown
Golden Nugget
Green Grape
Snow White
Bi-Color
Sweetie
Sun Drop
Bell Peppers (2 of each)
Chocolate Beauty
California Wonder
Jalapenos (2 of each)
Dark Green
Early
Carrots (2 rows of each)
Dragon
Yellow Stone
Basil (4-6 of each, I honestly can’t remember)
Dark Purple Opal
Genovese
Cheers!
