Compost purchased and mostly worked in.

 The weather is definitely warming up compared to the last two months. Should be up into the mid to high 70's today and almost clear skies. So, cool air, warm sun and cheap dirt.

But first, seedlings! I am slowly culling the tomatoes so I will eventually be left with three or four. The smaller ones and ones that are too leggy or have damaged leaves go first. At least three of them show good growth and leaves so I'll be glad when they are big enough to plant out.

 

 

HD has .75 cf bags of MG 'In Ground' planting soil, essentially compost, 3 for $10. Booyah! So I put two bags in and even with digging as deep as the shovel could go (before hitting a log) turning the soil over it only raised the level by an inch. Next week when we get more money, will be getting six more bags, sweetie will get three and I'll get three so it spreads the cost out. Now the issue is, they have the 3cf compost bags back in at almost the same cost, but...that's almost 50 lbs of soil that neither of us can handle. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I ended up pulling both cilantro plants and got a really good bunch you could never find in the store. I just grabbed the base and the leaves and twisted them. 

 

 

Last night just after sunset or close to it, I realized I had left a pristine bed of fresh soil open to the world. I did my best to put deterrents in just in case and then watered everything. I was rewarded with a still pristine bed of soil and then proceeded to cultivate it again and decided to pull the larger onions so I could dig more soil. Those roots were deep. I used the cultivator to pull them up mostly and there were still a lot of roots left behind. That one last corner of small onions that will stay there until I get the rest of the soil. I want that soil level all the way to that first bump out below the lip.

 

I cut off another section of the chicken wire just to have for either the south bed or the raised bed. Will likely need another piece for the raised bed when I get the seedlings in there. I'll add that last bag to the East bed, pull up the measly onion and cilantro that's in there and mix it all in good. Two more for that bed, another one for the south bed and the rest goes to the raised bed. I was considering getting a bag of potting soil as well but I think I have enough humus soil and perlite in there to be good. 

First of the trumpet vines to bloom. You would think I would remember that the larger more veined leaves were red and the smooth and shiny small leaves were purple but nooooo. It clicked today seeing the two vines. The purple one is on the opposite side to this one. Nice to see flowers so early.

Yay for digging in the dirt again!