Not doing a very good job keeping this up. Oh well.
We had about three nights of super cold weather and fairly cool days and more rain this past week. Not accomplishing much of anything outside but I did plant some more seeds the other day. Mostly herbs. And some are hard to germinate (rosemary, lavender) so I'm not expecting much, especially when my seeds are not the freshest. Planted them Friday and the bronze fennel had already sprouted little tails the next morning. I planted them in the sponge seed starters and usually have pretty good luck with them.
Yesterday we got the pea fencing up here. I planted my butterhead lettuce in one of the raised beds and the few broccoli and cauliflower I had saved back for here. David filled the last raised bed with some soil we got at Lowe's. We got enough to fill the kiddie pool that we had been using as a sandbox for my grandson and I planted my leaf lettuce in it. I also planted a few of the butterhead along the edge of the driveway flower bed, on the grass side. Gotta use whatever space you can find when you have a small lot!
Today I potted up some gomphrena (orange) and six Felicia (Yay!!!) and about a dozen purple hyacinth bean plants. I also did 17 red geranium cuttings. I usually do them in January but never got around to it and hey, I'm not selling this year, they're just for me! I pulled the Boston ferns out from under the shelves and it looks like three didn't make it but no matter, there are at least six that did and I can divide them. They'll fill out in no time.
Before I started anything in the greenhouse though, I trimmed back the unruley tomato plant that has been growing in there all winter. I saved enough to still hopefully get a few early tomatoes and took some cuttings that I put in water. Just didn't feel like potting them up today. If they don't survive, there's plenty more to get cuttings from. There is a pepper plant in there that was under the jungle of the tomato vines. It's going on it's third year and starting to leaf out. I hope it will produce again this year. It's a Gypsy and none of my Gypsy seeds germinated this year.
So now all three raised beds have hoops and netting to keep the cats out. If we have any more cold nights I can just throw a sheet over the netting. Hopefully tonight will be the end of it. I am going to use Wall-O-Waters and set out a couple of tomatoes in about ten days. They protect quite a bit but you have to get them off the tomatoes BEFORE they get too big.
I thought I was in pretty good shape as far as weeding but hey, where did all these new weeds come from? And all the grass? I tried weeding a small area today but it was still too wet. I hope I can get back to it before it dries out too much. With this clay it's almost impossible to pull weeds when it's dry.
Tomato before trimming:
And after:
And the now exposed pepper:
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