Now then, where was I? Oh yeah, yesterday

 I got so caught up in talking about the Bird of Paradise I totally forgot about all the other pictures and the garden. The weather is a tad bit cooler today than yesterday but that's because there has been no cloud cover whatsoever so any heat that built up during the day just evaporates. So here we are with it being 60 in the house and 51 outside in the  morning after the sun came up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Had to use something reasonable for a first picture due to thumbnail reference later. Lettuces and the sweet peas. These are from yesterday, I gave the sweet peas a dash of water this morning and then went out to the garden to check on everything else.

One, maybe two cilantro have come up in the corner and then I watered what I thought was reasonable, given the cold but then...no. Barely got the surface wet so I took everything out of the bed and watered again.

That's when I noticed two of the snow peas are finally coming up!  Will have to still wait for a bit to see if any others are coming before putting the sweet peas in there. Which are getting tall enough now that I took them to the main garden for more sun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A dozen carrot seedlings are up. That cluster in the middle will definitely have to be thinned. The zinnia cones are not quite falling apart yet. Not that I need seeds but am hoping that birds might notice for a snack.

I even watered the cilantro and the potato in the corner. Those are coming up all long and stretched out due to being in the shade constantly and were in between the logs. I then noticed, a random thistle coming up. Now that I think about it, may well be a prickly lettuce, which is highly more likely than a true thistle. The way seeds get dispersed is kind of mind blowing sometimes.

 

Puddle after watering that I had to use the shovel to even scrape a small channel in the rock hard soil to drain it. It will be gone sooner than you'd think but it was right in front of the bed and got the bottom of my shoe coated in mud. I didn't take the sweet pea tray down until after I took the picture but went between the smaller potato and the strawberry cup. 

Soon enough I'm going to have to find somewhere else to put all those plants that need more time. The strawberry will stay in the cup for a while, the oregano and roses need a permanent planter that I don't have ready as yet. Super proud of that one potato that is taking off like gangbusters. The other two and the chives are going to get shaded out I suspect.When the cauliflowers are big enough it's going to take up a lot of space in that bed. If the russet pieces take off as well, that is going to be one crowded planter. I watered the south bed but am still reluctant to plant anything there because it's so cold and fully shaded at this point. Nothing edible is really going to go there. 

Whoever laid out the beds for this garden must have done it in the summer because those south beds get almost nothing in the winter. It's useless to try and plant anything there other than four or five months from spring through summer. A waste of space really. Although I did notice the other gardener (Layla?) planted a row of green onions in the one bed. So she gets out there once in a while.

In my climate I should be able to plant and grow things all year round. We don't get snow or too much freezing weather so there's lots of things we can do. As long as we have the sun to do so. I'm thinking of coming up with another 'dream' plan for that garden that takes the shade of the wall into consideration. 

Something else I haven't done is fertilizing. They don't really need it right now but it would help.