Back to the garden again

Not that anything fantastic and wonderful is happening and the same goes with the weather. Nice easy day, breezy with hazy high clouds. No rain expected until middle of the week so gives things just enough time to dry out a bit enough that any seeds need to get watered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Early morning silhouette from yesterday before I went on an excursion to visit a friend. Sun is directly behind the tree purposely and had just cleared the roof line of the church next door. Water droplets on the snow peas after I watered. Just playing with the lenses and how close I can get.

The following pictures are from the previous three days.

The two romaine in this bed are just getting huge! My fingertips are touching the soil on the left picture so the leaves are getting close to six inches. Again, almost picked a few leaves but remembered seeing a video about how to cut romaine so you get all the leaves but leave the base so it grows back.

Chives are hanging in there and still haven't dug up that punky potato. I'm wondering if something ate or attacked the middle of it, it's just not looking good and don't think it's ever going to produce much.

I was asked what the green onions in the baggie by the sink was and I leaped up and said I meant to take those down to plant them. Luckily it wasn't too late in the day and I raced down, picked up my favorite hole drilling stick (flower stalk from the aloe) and shoved them all in. Four were ones I had just pulled so they still had some good roots on them the others were from a bunch I had bought. Total of 7 and we'll see how they do in that bed. The radishes along the front are doing good and everything else is plugging along nicely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the three extra sweet peas have come up! Before and after watering, I didn't notice any new ones today but will keep checking. With the way they are all filling out, should have left it at three and dropped in an extra snow pea on the other side.

oh well.

The gardeners haven't mowed the lawns in a while for various reasons so some of the grass is as tall as Rocky's elbow. He doesn't have to hunt for blades to chew on, they're right in front of his face. Also, as much as some garden pages and 'experts' say to leave the leaves on the ground, it doesn't work here. That large patch of yellow and dead grass is from a pile that was left there for a week. Leaving the leaves is for rural places where lawns don't survive the winter snow. Finally, I got my plant ID app reloaded and instead of using that I went with Google Lens (as soon as my phone restarts from an update I'll be checking with the app). So due to the shine on the leaves making it look more blue it came up with 'Milk Thistle', 'Blessed Thistle (same thing), and Prickly Lettuce. I am still going with thistle as I've seen Prickly Lettuce when it's new and it's not that shiny green. Of course when I've seen it, it's growing in full sun. Consensus on the apps is, Spiny Sowthistle, which has a flower that looks unfortunately a lot like Prickly Lettuce. So not really worth keeping around. Young leaves are edible though, but they'll do better in the compost bucket.

Worm sign! There are worms at work in the raised bed yay! Breaking down all the composty goodness in there making it wonderful. Impossible to add soil in there as I go but will put aside some money for end of summer to add in two more bags. I decided to dig in the south bed and discovered more worm castings and an unlucky worm I may have cut in half. From what I remember, they regenerate just shorter. Hopefully. Where there's one, there's a few more so not too upset about it.

Seeing worm activity in the raised bed means  they have most likely worked their way up from the ground, through the leaves and up to the soil. this is okay. More than okay it means the leaf litter and branches underneath are turning into compost.

Everything chugging a long, seriously thinking about 'recycling' the lettuces and cauliflower seedlings and starting some lettuce in the beds. Most definitely not worth the wait if it takes this long, that lettuce should have been much bigger by now.

Composting is just plant recycling right?