Very breezy and lovely day today

Well it did say gale warnings yesterday and today it is windy, high puffy clouds now  and wonderful temperatures. May it last for a few more days, weeks..maybe? Hah! Not here.

The soil still looked damp to me but watered anyway. Rearranged the pea supports and weeded. But first, the iris is looking pretty good now that I got an up close look at it. Imagine that color growing with a yellow and lighter shade of purple! I love irises and gladiolas for all their colors! The pine tree, not looking too happy lately.

 The branches continue to brown unfortunately even as it's trying to grow new tips. If it survives at this point, it will be lucky.

There is a small patch of dichondra growing near a wall and starting to invade the other grass. Not that that's a bad thing but it can be invasive. Did you know that it's a cousin to morning glory?

Dichondra is no longer a popular lawn due to it needing a LOT of water and fertilizer. My dad put in a dichondra lawn in our front yard and it was gorgeous all the time! Lovely and soft to walk on (but we weren't allowed to walk on it) and during spring and summer one of us would be out there trimming the runners away from the round step stones leading from where he parked his car to the front walkway of the house. The other problem with dichondra is due to it being a broad leaf plant, if it invades somewhere other than grass, it has to be dug out not sprayed to kill it. 

Meanwhile back at the garden and in no particular order:

Lettuce is looking good

Potatoes are picking up

And once again formatting is being a pain in the tush... grrumble. Was going to have a series of photos with witty captions but nooooo, formatting doesn't want me to. So if it looks funky on the finished page, that's why.

Guiding the peas with a few extra supports here and there. This is a top view of how it's used a tendril to put a strangle hold on one of the wires I added.

Peas are not being picky, and I decided to move the smaller pea between the to cages to one of the front legs of the cage, hopefully it will latch on and get growing. I also thinned out the lettuces a little more. As they get bigger I'll pull more, as in that row of five will be two or three later on. I also pulled one of the smaller pea plants that just was not growing compared to the others. It had flopped over a few times and just wasn't latching on so simply pulled it. More than enough plants at this point if they all survive.

Added a cage to the peas in the north bed along with one of the red metal sticks I had found. Added the other one to the small pea cage in the south bed. 

And I weeded. That mess of dirt was spurge and purslane that was creeping into the potato bed. The space is 'just' wide enough for the hoe to get back there and the soil is rock hard but managed to get them all scraped out without bothering the tiny lettuce or the pea.

No sign of the onions yet, nor radishes in the north bed which is disappointing. The radishes should have started to pop by now at least but nada so far. Again might have buried them too deep and then watered and rained so covered them more. Oh well. 

Rather proud of my two potato plants as long as they produce something. Not sure how to add more to that spot to go wide and vertical. As I've said, gardening is experimenting, testing, successes and failures.