Thursday, March 9, 2023

Lightly watered again, pea progress

 The weather is another glorious clear sunny day. We're getting rain in the next few days though so am making the  most of my trips to the garden.  I soaked the spray head about six or eight hours in 4% vinegar to see if it helped. It did. Sort of.



After and before pictures. Definitely needed a brush to clean the rest of the calcium off as you can see. It made some difference and may soak it again and pour some inside as well. 4% is the standard for white vinegar, pickling vinegar is 5%.  Really need a new nozzle and hose of course but not happening any time soon.

The peas now have some tendrils and had to adjust them to contact the supports. I suspect I'll have some good size cilantro in about a month, no onions unless I plant the ones I've started in the glass.

Again, hard to see but they are there. Almost too late now to get something more conducive to the situation.










I noticed a radish seedling that was uprooted and wilted hmmm. Okay toss it aside not worth trying to save. Finished watering and the south bed, of course, didn't need any water. I was trying to level out the soil and discovered (what I thought was) another plant that had been covered up. Turns out it was likely the seedling I had tossed aside. So I just replanted it in the now wet soil.

Gardening is all about nurturing and hope. Will that seedling survive? Most likely not, but there's always a glimmer of hope that it will. Is this any better than the stick or the carnation stem? Yes and no. It's a matter of knowledge giving you a little better edge on the hope.

Knowledge is power as the saying goes and gardening is one of the best ways to show that. And since blogger isn't cooperating with the photos, guess that's it for today.

 


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