Seed planting redux and lemons

 The weather feels like it's shifting cooler, still a bit too warm in the sun though but am not covering up the cilantro today. I watered really well last night so even at 1:30pm the soil was still very damp looking on the surface. Lower angle of the sun means less intense full sun exposure on the soil and not drying it out as much. This is a good thing.

I mentioned before not seeing any ripe lemons on the bush, well here they are. Not quite ready but they are ripening very well. Because it gets more shade than it should, it's a bit delayed but also I think that food it got earlier in the year has made a difference.

 

I decided to go through my assorted 'containers' and see if there was this one from when we got strawberries. It has lots of holes in the sides and is a perfect planting container. I dumped the soil in one of the black ones into this and then planted assorted lettuce seeds again in two rows. Will see how they come up. Covered them lightly but didn't water.

I then got one of the taller cups and put the soil from the other black tray in it, sprinkled a good half dozen or so cauliflower seeds in that one and lightly covered. Everything goes back in the shade and now I wait. 7-10 days for the cauliflower and about the same for the lettuce. Not expecting anything for another week from the onions and sweet peas since I did those on Nov 1 conveniently.

  The potato that's coming up still looks great, nice deep green and the leaves are unfurling well. Those zinnias just will not stop flower, it's kind of funny. I could cut some more and bring them upstairs but let some of the older ones go to seed to let the plant get the signal to shut down.

Any cauliflower or lettuce seeds that come up and I don't use will be nurtured for trading. I don't know why I grabbed the mixed lettuce instead of the romaine but there's still time for that. Fall has only started and given the weather, many days ahead of warm sunshine and cold nights before winter sets in.

Spring is the infant of the garden, learning and growing one step at a time. Summer is the youth of the garden, growing fast and much to do, everything moving and doing. Winter is old age, fruits harvested, plants are pulled, then the long wait until the renewal of spring.