It's downright reasonable today and yesterday but will be cranking up again this coming week. Such is the spring and summer of our discontent in San Diego. No new pictures that are photo worthy, barely got out yesterday until the evening. Not that it was heinously hot but it was warm enough wasn't in the mood to be out in the sun.
Seven peppers have sprouted and since I only planted six of each variety, these are a dice throw at this point. I'd like to say they're mostly green bell peppers but really, really have to wait for true leaves to sprout. They all look the same at this stage.
I noticed one of the garlic were soft at the neck/ground area and decided it was not going to survive. No idea what happened but I dug it up and it was barely bulbing. The other two have a much thicker neck and same with the third one at the other end of the bed. My guess is it is much more dry at this end and will have to focus on watering better in that area.
Very soft neck and not chewed by anything so I tore the tops off but then just discarded them. I love the smell of garlic greens and they make a good substitute for garlic chives. Everything else is doing reasonable, almost pulled a carrot or two bu decided to wait, have to see if my willpower holds out today. I honestly would have had more uses for radishes than carrots but I did use the first carrot in a dish the other night. I'd eat more salad with them in it for sure.
So hard to grow vegetables that we are used to having year round from the stores. I can have a salad with carrots, radishes, two kinds of lettuce, cucumber and tomato buying from the store. When you grow your own veggies, carrots and radishes are early in the season with lettuce, then cucumber and tomato are in the summer. I remember suggesting to people to make a 'salsa garden' and then years later realized that won't work out as well when you have to grow them at different times of the year. Onions, peppers and tomatoes you might be able to swing but cilantro would be early season for sure. So I ended up just saying, 'what are you going to eat?' Why grow something if you aren't going to use it or, in the case of flowers, admire them and provide pollinators with food? I remember someone saying, 'oh I just want to grow something'. Almost walked away from them but ended up helping them pick out some things and honestly, their yard and their effort not my problem. If they wanted advice on what went wrong later on, then it's kind of the reason we were there.
Anyway.... not much other than that goging on. Will probably water tomorrow but maybe only use a bottle or bucket for that one corner. It's been warm but not hot enough for both beds to dry out too far in just two days.
Yippity skippity.
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