It is really overcast and cool, almost not shorts weather cool but I know it'll warm up later so warm shirt and shorts. I brought down all my tools because I was going to cut some flowers to bring back and the raised bed needed a splash of water.
Better pictures of that beautiful pink epi. Pink seems to be the color of the gardens in spring, I mean there's yellow irises but they don't last very long. Need some purple or blue in somewhere.
The picture of the smaller shrub rose does not do it justice, the colors are a lot more vibrant than that but lighting and my phone sucks. The rose is now mine as I cut it the next morning.
Yay for cilantro/coriander! Wish it would warm up just a dad more so it sets seed sooner. I could cut it all down but then do what with it? I still have a bunch of it in the fridge I haven't used or dried or frozen.
The lettuces are still plugging along nicely and the tomatoes are doing a great job of shading the one in the front. Almost too good as they are getting much bigger.
Just some reference photos and also a bit of concern with how they look now. It could be the constantly shifting weather from cold to hot because they have gotten some food. Apparently though, they need phosphorous, where can I get that all on it's own? Hoping the fertilizer I put in gets to them soon. Organic food tends to move slower and the one I put in is a 3-5-6 which is perfect for tomatoes and fruits for ratio. Just the numbers aren't very high because it's organic.
More reference photos which will change in the next post because I was getting worried about the last tomato still in the cup and how much room I had left in the raised bed.
I looked in the mulch bucket (On Tuesday) thinking I should pull that out and mix it up a bit and saw the fungus on the left. Okay, well fungus in decaying matter is no surprise really and good but the next day (Wednesday) there were two lumps of fungus. It is more yellow than it appears in the second picture and it reminds me of a yellow 'plantpot' fungus that I used to see in the Camellia pots at the nursery. Again, no real cause for concern but I scooped them out and tossed them behind the jade plant anyway.
More on that bucket of mulch tomorrow.
Again with the snail trails you can't see on camera. There's dozens of them crisscrossing from the bed to the log pile. No signs of them going up the side but since that bed wall isn't completely flat I suspect they are going underneath to munch on the mulch and logs then going back. Wish I had some copper tape to test on it.
And a picture of Layla's sage sprig flowering. Ragtag bunch of things in the same pot but they are surviving and I'm watering them dutifully for her.
I am getting so confused on things, I think I posted previously as Wednesday but it was Tuesdays...so whatever, it happened when it happened and will figure it out.
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