So far, so good for the weather

 (This is a post that's going to take all day because photos aren't uploading. I started typing at 1:30pm and took 2 hours to post)

It's 1:30 and we haven't turned the AC on yet. Might do that when Jon takes his nap but so far we have a nice breeze blowing and the fans are sufficient. Not running the oven and tomorrow will be a crockpot day so no extra heat will be generated.

As for the garden, I got out real quick to water in the evening, covered the seedlings and generally admired the tomatoes some more. No watering needed in the morning and will check in my evening foray to be sure. Still some seeds that need to stay moist. Might even water lightly and toss some pieces of bark or something on top of the cilantro line.

First, flowers. That yellow rose is the only thing blooming right now (it's actually closer than the birdhouse). Sigh. Just makes me so angry and sad. the lantana is still blooming like crazy so at least there's that.

Since there isn't really any other photos other than the tomatoes still growing the other news is one of the zinnia seedlings got munched despite being covered. My only guess is I just plopped the cup on top and didn't dig it in so something wormed it's way under and munched on both leaves.

 

The cup on the right is the one that got eaten, the one bottom left has one leaf chewed down. Nothing has touched the cucumber thankfully.

The patch worked...sort of. Leak isn't as bad but I didn't overlap in two spots so it still leaked. Hope to get some more of the hose tape this month. The branch that was leaning against the fence fell down completely. Not broken just slid down due to the weight of the small fruit on it.

I carefully picked it up and tucked it into the rest of the vine, weaving what I could into the trellis. I scattered some cilantro seeds along the rest of the trellis line and watered them in last night. Will see what comes up in a week since I just went to the dead stems I still had laying near the compost and pulled some dried seeds off instead of using the ones I had upstairs. Still nothing from the peppers though.

Oh but those tomatoes!

 I also had a chance to get to the local library and picked up two packets of seeds! I got some Romaine lettuce and Royal Family Mix sweet peas for the fall/winter. 

The only place I can grow the sweet peas is on the trellis where I just planted the cilantro. It is also where the peas were growing before so if I'm remembering correctly that's not a good thing. The cilantro will likely do really well because the peas put nitrogen back in the soil. By the time cool season rolls around the cilantro will be ready to harvest and the cilantro will be shading the pea seeds as they come up. The tomatoes will be done as well hopefully by October so the trellis will be free and clear. Have to remember to toss more fertilizer and soil in before planting.

There were a lot of things I wanted to try and grow but just not right now. I'll likely go back and get some zucchini seeds for sure next summer. This is such an incredible thing for the libraries to do! Free seeds! Didn't have to show my library card or anything and you get two choices per person per day so I could have told Jon what to pick and he would have gotten them for me. He was looking at some books and stuff while I went through the catalogue. Almost got some Alyssum seeds but I know they'd likely take over and reseed. Not a bad thing but just don't think I have enough room.

There is that crate but saving that for potatoes in the spring.