Another wonky schedule day and Hot!

 Definitely very hot today which is average for this time of year for us but still. Not happy. 

Decided to go out for breakfast and then had to rush home due to my upset system. Walked Rocky then was able to get out to the garden and water. Hooboy! 

Everything is busting out all over, which means I need to start doing something about those weeds. That one pea in the back of the bed is just going nuts! The others in the north bed that get more sun are doing good not sure what the difference is.

There's a third sprout coming up under the log structure as well so that will be five for that bed. I got an idea for a shade structure for when they're small. I have some cheesecloth I never used for making tsaziki and if it's big enough and double weave can attach it to four sticks. I doubt it's that big but a piece of thin cotton sheet would work as well.

I finally got tired of looking at the huge radish tops and pulled that one, then a flash of red caught my eye in the tomato and there were two small ones ready to pick tucked inside.

As you can see the radish is not very big on the bottom and forked like crazy. Definitely too much nitrogen in that one spot.This is why you cultivate and rake in your fertilizer as much as possible to avoid pockets like that. Also likely why the tomato is doing gangbusters with growth. those side roots were growing off to the right of the tomato which was where most of the water would flow from the other side makes sense for sure. You can see the hole in the one tomato they were no bigger than a ping pong ball so I tossed them. Plenty of growing season coming up.

And last but not least, the trees certainly are putting out their new growth quickly as well! I need to start waking up earlier so I can get out to water sooner. Watering in the middle of the day is not really good since the heat of the soil will evaporate most of the water. During the summer I'll likely need to be out there twice a day. Speaking of that might consider hooking up a soaker hose for the beds. I hate drip systems, they're inefficient for watering selected beds and soil like mine. I would probably try some micro soaker hose if it were my own place or other type of saoking. As it is I will just get my minor exercise walking down there and watering by hand.

I saw a plot of land for sale in WA that had some planter beds already set up though very derelict. It seemed to be a good production situation so when I double checked it on google it seems that it belonged to one of the other homes neighboring it and likely had to sell it off for whatever reason. Oh to have the money and location for doing such a thing with a house of my own.

Sigh.