Heat has come back up again so the roller coaster of cool/warm days is leveling out a bit. Breezy today which helps to an extent but not by much. It hit 91-93 depending on what app and time you check, we went out for about an hour or so for a local rally but closed up and started the AC before we left. Let me tell you, that made all the difference in the world!
Meanwhile, back in the garden..... once again the photos aren't loading in the add/insert photo window so I have no clue what my photos are.
Pepper seedlings are doing swell, the tallest one even has a second set of actual leaves coming on. Still nothing from those other four and the three pods with the bean seeds, nothing. Those should have come up by now. I dug around with a toothpick and the seeds are soft, but don't seem to show any sign of actually cracking open. I will continue to water but it's getting awfully late for those. Besides, not a big fan of beans anyway but more on those later.
In no particular order and possible repeats, leaving the flowers on the Roma tomato plant at that stage. There's two clusters and I suspect I won't have a bumper crop of tomatoes this year from the look of it. Not unless it gets a sudden burst of energy and completely goes F1 later on. The Romaine is doing okay, still awfully small to even pull the outside leaves for salad but is getting there. Might use them in salad once we get other groceries next week. I decided to pull (accidentally first) the small potato plant in the middle. It just was not looking good and only had two small (ping pong ball size and marble size) white potatoes. So those are going for seed planting next seasons. Big open space in the middle and behind the cauliflower ready for those pepper plants. Cauliflower is gaining some size, packing my patience on that one and keeping an eye on it opening up rather than keeping close. I used a green wire to close the leaves around it to shade during the heat of the day.
Latest two carrots pulled, still short stubby things and the two potatoes. Need to figure out what to do with all those carrots and cauliflower. If I had been able to plant radishes I would have eaten them already. So I guess carrots are off the list because just not a fan really unless mixed in a salad or other dish. Right now I don't have the makings for anything that would need or benefit from carrots. I just did think of doing something else though. Dicing them up, parboiling and tossing them in the freezer for using later. Like I did with the cauliflower. Brilliant!
Given the failure of the beans and peppers and a few others, I decided to start looking at the dates on the seed packs. Oldest ones are from 2022. That's four years old and real close to low viability for a lot of seeds. But beans... those things seemingly last forever. I haven't been keeping my collection in extreme heat, mostly low light but not in air tight containment. But beans... honestly.... beansI would rather grow pinto beans than green beans and I have plenty of pintos from the store. Not sure how viable they are though. As far as beans go, I'd love to grow some lima beans, I love those in a good succotash with squash and corn. I'm thinking though that tomatoes and peppers are the crops again this year.
A small anomaly that I will chalk up to worms, small holes in the soil in the rose garden area. I've seen them before but even though I'm sure there's worms it's unusual for the holes to stay behind even after the soil was wet when they pushed to the surface. Not ants for sure, no sign of ant activity so I guess will stick with worm sign.
Total side track but side garden related....plant identification when someone uses artificial intelligence.
I have a supposed 'relaxing' color by number app on my ipad, they have a weekly 4 image set to finish for whatever badges or bonuses. So one of these sets was botanicals that heal. Okay I'm into botanicals for sure... so the plants they chose were Chamomile for Relaxation, 'Peonies for Mood Regulation', Lavender for sleep and aloe for moisture. The picture above is what they used for Peonies. THOSE ARE NOT A PEONY!!! THOSE ARE ROSES!!! I have forgiven some images of colorful flowers or butterflies for not being accurate, even some animals and chalked them up to being more 'fantastical' and 'artistic license' but this.... this is outright and completely WRONG. I can't write to the company, can't really put a review on the app store, not worth the energy. But I sent the picture to another plant geek like myself for her to facepalm.
Anyway... that's all for the garden today. Just opened my weather app and it says it's 94 outside. Not going to cool down below 80 until after sunset. It is a wonderful and comfortable 78 where I sit at my desk.
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