Slightly hazy but seeds planted and watered

 Another almost windy day, got showered, Rocky walked and then headed to the garden before noon. Not any flower pictures this time around, flowers all over are winding down to summer. I remembered the seeds when I went down to the garden though!

North bed is looking good, everything is pretty much baked by noon so watering every day at this point is a possibility. Again. if I had straw I would be using that as mulch to keep the soil cool. There are good size tomatoes developing on all bushes now so should be coming into a bumper crop by mid July.

 

Radishes are fine but I did notice some holes in a few leaves. Everything is doing great so far (knock on wood) and despite gaps between plants  I don't like to plant things too close due to roots taking over, especially the tomatoes.

No further moved soil from the south bed thankfully. Hoping that the disturbance I created encouraged it to move on.  There may still be slugs or snails in the raised bed but I am not putting that trap out again, too much trouble and besides, I used that space to plant more cucumber. You can barely tell in the picture on the right that there is a fingernail sized tomato developing on that bush. I was watering at the time and wet hands and a hose don't make for good pictures.

 

So, six or seven cucumber seeds plopped down at the trellis and about four (2 each) yellow and green bell pepper seeds between the coriander and tomatoes. Just dropped them in the dry soil and barely pushed them in because I knew I was going to water.

As a test for slug presence I happened to break off a tomato leaf from one of the south bed plants and after watering plopped it on the soil near the tomato in the corner. Most likely will need to put a fresh one out in the evening because the sun is going to just dry that out by sunset. Might put a piece of bark there as well for them to hide under.

Oh a while back (last year?) I mentioned that there was dichondra growing in a corner near the lawn and remarked how the heck did that get there, first and second that it would likely start taking over....well...

 

Left picture is the original clump, the picture on the left is the lawn area in the shade directly opposite of it and the dichondra is matching the oxalis invasion. Bottom picture is about six feet away toward the 'bench garden' and sidewalk. Not that I care about what is there but just find it amusing and interesting. My dad had a pristine dichondra lawn in the 60's and it needs a lot of water to look good. So it isn't that surprising that it's starting to thrive in this situation where it gets partial shade and regular watering.

Oh yes, and evidence of the bougainvillea fading flowers.

 

We shall see what happens in the next week or so with the seeds I planted, crossing fingers. The weather is perfect, the soil and air is warm but nights are cool. Second best time of year for gardening weather.