New plantings, moving plants and disaster

The weather is the same, no real change so not going to dwell on that and get on with garden things. Got my hands in the dirt today, determined to plant seeds and move plants into the ground. 

 

 

So yeah, same weather different day. Makes for on again, off again with the overshirt I was wearing but it's good weather for working in the garden and not getting too overheated.

Flowers abound in the garden and outside. I have walked past this plant three times now and named it correctly, now I can't think of the name and had to look it up. Watsonia. Only one flower stem so far which is sad because it had like five or six last year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Hard to see but that is what's left of the little pink rose bush in front of the giant BoP. Someone took it upon themselves to trim off the one seed pod and bud that was on it and pull off all the leaves. None of the other roses have any problematic pruning. Grrr. Seedlings are coming up just hard to see them.

 

Everything got a good cultivating to stir things up . Notice that little notch of untilled soil? That's the lone carrot over there. The onions are doing great, even the larger bulb ones. Hoping those survive the year long process of growing. As much room as that looks like, it really isn't that much in either bed.

Planted more romaine and mixed (aka BSS) lettuce in the south bed. Put out a lot of seeds in two rows with the romaine at the back of course. Will see how they fare.

Fish pepper seeds are in! Total of eight seeds in two rows, using the potting soil. Still have more in the packet but didn't really look to see how many. Please please please grow!

I then decided to move the smaller chive plant to the back of the south bed. After I put the seeds in. Always an afterthought with me but it'll all turn out fine. Oh I watered that west bed really well yesterday. It's almost bone dry again.

I then decided to move the oregano out of the pot and into the ground in the sunniest spot I had. Look at how root bound it is! No wonder it's struggling! Those roots were really tight too, I tore that rootball apart by half and sunk it in the soil then watered it in. I bet I'm going to regret putting it there in six months. 

I may well be planting the squash in the middle of the raised bed and put peppers in the west bed. Tomatoes on the trellis and the lettuces in the shade. I suspect there will still be room for two more peppers in the raised bed even with the squash in the middle. So two tomatoes on the trellis, squash in the middle, two peppers on the right and maybe another on the left. maybe some green onions (if I find seeds) along the front. 

Now on to the disaster.

It still works, screen isn't totally ruined but fumbled it putting it back in my pocket and it landed face down on the rocky soil. This is why I always got a case with a screen cover. I couldn't afford it this time and it happened. Packing tape on the screen and it still functions just hard to read, small orange halo around the biggest impact point on the left side. Sigh. Have to go through the same insurance as last time but have to pay $40 to get the phone replaced. Need to see how much it would cost to replace just the screen but initial search says it's more expensive.

First world problems.