Weather change again and preparing.

 According to the weather people it's going to be in the high 90's in three days. I need to get some shade on the new seeds and make sure to get out there and water, other than today.

Since it rained and I watered before that, the soil is good still, will definitely be out there tomorrow morning with the cheesecloth and sticks to make shade for the soil. The logs were okay but now there's no room with the Marigold line and the onion and radishes.

The potatoes, let me tell you... I'm desperate because that larger one really needs to be buried again and there's not enough soil to do it structurally. Besides, I still want to use more of a potting soil with a little native dirt for the remainder of the towering process.

I just posted on the local NextDoor garden group about needing wire mesh so will see what happens. Barring that will have to see if I can scrape up some money to go to HD for it.

The taller pea I had to coax and nudge one of the tendrils to latch onto the green wire for the next growth lunge. You can see the shade line is very shallow now at 11 am. Three weeks ago that would have been deeper so the bed is getting morning sun for sure and with the tender lettuce and peas in there having afternoon shade will be good.

Someone was being helpful? They used the hoe to dig out the patch next to my bed and also scraped some of the weeds in front of the north bed. Okay? I guess? I scraped them some more and then applied the hoe to the compost pile vigorously to mix things up. 

Oh, one plant I have taken a picture of but haven't talked about is one of the 'weeds' that was also half scraped up. Really?

Two clumps right next to each other and she only scraped up the larger one. Sigh. Anyway this is Purslane that is actually edible if you want something different in your salad.

Can be thrown in salads or cooked like spinach, personally not going to bother I would need other leafy stuff to throw that into. Slightly succulent leaves, oh and the colorful Portulaca that you can buy at the garden center? All that is edible too, as long as it hasn't been treated with anything. Tart, lemony flavor apparently and loaded with vitamins and minerals so yay for green things! 

There is another plant that is similar to this that is a Euphorbia so be aware. If you break off a leaf or stem and it has white sap like glue, it's a Euphorbia and is not poisonous but can be toxic and make you sick.

So seed shade structure, I have some cheesecloth and am trying to figure out how/what to use to elevate it. In theory I can use the logs and lay it on that with something to hold it down. Could even use the spare tomato cages laid down like I did as a cat deterrent and lay it on top of that... YES! That will do. 

Right size but the cages won't work.

Not enough rigid structure to support it without tying it on. Also given the angle of the sun will need to be angled from the front of the bed to the wall to provide shade during the hottest part of the day. Long sticks put in at an angle will work. Using the logs won't do because of how loose the threads on the cheese cloth is, it gets caught on every little thing and will be shredded in seconds. Oh for a small scrap of actual shade cloth!

Updates tomorrow on further developments.