More pictures of...dirt and plants.

 Grabbed the first seed packet in my basket, the water nozzle and peels from potatoes and carrots from dinner last night and headed to the garden. At least I remembered it this time, when I had apple peels I forgot to put them in a baggie and they sat and stunk up the front of the apartment overnight.

Beautiful partly cloudy day. Mostly sunny but those fast moving light upper atmosphere clouds that keep it from getting too warm. According to the weather reports it's going to be in the 70's and 80's in my neck of the woods for the next week. Great.

Some of the carrots have finally grown their true leaves, yay! Also an observation about the radishes that are doing fantastic.

Formatting again... grrrr. 

Anyway, true leaves on the carrots and the radishes in front of the tomato are larger to the east than the other end. There are several reasons for this and at this point have no clue other than that end gets the sun first. Will see what they look like when it comes time to pull them up.

So the compost pile is interesting and a pile it is. I have the half rotted stems from the pruning the tomato last year, various leaves and roots from digging up the garden, a little potting soil someone dumped last year as well and now apple, carrot and potato peels.

I used the cultivator to move it around, pulled out some of the larger gnarly branches and generally tried to bury the peels as much as possible. It's more dirt than peels but the microbes in the soil and hopefully..worms will find their way in and break things down a bit faster. 

So on to putting the peas to bed. No reaction from the weeds from the spraying yesterday but it does take a few days for it to work. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just sprinkled them out there and then pushed them into the soil. The larger divots are from the cat and when I was going to dig some soil for the soil test. 

Yes they're planted awfully close but I don't expect them to do anything because I didn't soak them. After pushing them in I just picked up the hose and watered well. Dirt pretty much was washed over them and even if they are in the shade I'm going to keep them damp for the duration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I put the rest of them over by the tomato using the same method and cleared the log shade pieces off to plant them easier. Watered well and then restructured the pieces for shade since it's supposed to be sunny for the next week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I shifted a few of the pieces around after I took the pictures to get a little more even coverage. It's all an experiment and like all science it is trial and error and mistakes. I don't like the error and mistake part of it, as any gardener will tell you. I've had too much of that lately and one can only take so much.

Anywhoo... birds are chirping outside, there's construction of some sort going on with cutting and grinding, sirens and the wind. Sound of spring in the city.