Loving the spring weather!

 Since I watered so well yesterday  but it was clear and sunny I brought down the sprayer and remembered the coffee grounds, apple peel and eggshells I had set aside.

Guess what? Soil was just fine for water.

 I am thrilled at how good the carrots are looking and the little lettuce sprouts are hanging in there. Pulled a couple that looked like they had been either trampled or chewed on.

And phone is being cranky not loading all the pictures. I know I took at least one picture of the potatoes because I dug the soil up around them and wanted to show what it looked like.

Harumph. I am likely getting low on storage so it's being stubborn about it because I also took a picture of the Bougainvillea that's in full bloom before coming upstairs. Restarting has fixed the issue on my phone now let's see if they get loaded here.

Still no photo of the boug...so it may be my fault. It's why  I have the sound for the shutter turned on so I know I hit the button.

I put most of the grounds on the compost heap and sprinkled some around the potatoes and dug them in. The rest went right into the compost heap.

Turned that a few times, don't want to dig too deep as I know there are worms at work in there. I just use the hoe to pull stuff from the sides and pile it up, move things around a little. If that stuff is useable by next year I'll be happy.

 Also found another 'invader' near the potatoes. This one is an easy one to get ride of being a palm seedling.

I must have been stepping on it for a while to have that kind of damage but once you pull it like that, it isn't going to regrow. Palms are like grass that way, once the head is cut off it dies. There aren't any palm trees very close but you know how seeds can travel.

Speaking of seeds... just going to wait for the cilantro to bloom and set seed, then save them for the fall. They were free seeds anyway so not a big deal.

If I remember correctly that bed was in full sun for a few hours during the middle of summer, right now it's getting early morning sun and by the time I get out there around 11 it's in full shade. Hopefully that will be fine for the lettuce and peas. 

But.. the other bed I really do need to get some string/bush beans in the north bed. The peas are doing 'okay' but not as well as the ones in the shadier bed. 

I put the other red stick next to the smaller one because it needed it right now. If I end up yanking them for beans oh well.

Other flowers around the complex are blooming as well. A Double Delight rose! Yay! Unknown variety of yellow, could hazard a guess and say maybe Mellow Yellow or Sunsprite... hard to say because I don't know when it was planted. That yellow is not going to be a Peace rose, I had one in the shade years ago and it was not that vibrant a yellow.

The Double Delight is unmistakable though and has been around for decades. When the next buds open on the yellow I'll give it a sniff and see how strong it is.

Once again I misidentified a flower, the Crocosmia is actually a Watsonia. Big difference and I really need to start re-learning my plant names. Watsonia can be a monster plant as you saw with my previous pictures. Not nearly as many flower spikes as should be on a plant that size

In the background is the small red rose that's struggling along in the shade, under a tree and next to an asparagus fern. It is likely the rootstock of something that used to be there or it could be a miniature. I dislike hodgepodge gardens that likely no thought of anything other than 'put something there' went into it. You can also see a seedling/root sprout from the Liquidamber behind the Watsonia. Sigh. 

And then there's the chipper little Phoebe, doing their part to keep bugs under control.

Well I was going to get a picture off the internet but it seems to be slower than usual today.

Despite changing the name of the file it was saved under the random number of the original.

Time to close it up and do something else as the interwebs and me are not on the same page.