Monday, 16-May-11

Ok, not being very good with this. Quite a bit has happened, with not posts. All that Ican remember right now is that I planted corn seeds last Thursday. And there are 5 beefsteak tomatoes in the potager along with two hills of summer squash (one zucchini, one globe) outside the fenced area.

Yard

• Ed sawed down the krulwilg and is busy cutting up the bits.

Pots

• Moved three jalapeño babies into the pot where I put some chilepetin seeds; no action from them. Still lots of jalapeño babies, what to do with them?
• The poblano/ancho seeds have started germinating at last, so maybe I should try again with chilepetins.
• Potted seeds of broccoli (9) and eggplant (6).
• Potted seeds of nasturiums (8) and sweet peas (8), both climbing type.
• Put the anemone bulbs in a pot whose dirt had been mixed with the water-holding gel. We'll see how that goes. Many too many bulbs for a 30cm pot.

Salad garden

• The four cilantro plants are doing OK, as are the four basil plants. (The fifth cilantro died; the fifth basil is in a pot.)
• The garlic I planted last fall has been eaten by something.
• Ed cleared most of the babies from last year's cherry tomatoes, leaving two behind.
• Lots of the red-leaf lettuce collapsed, but the rest looks quite happy and we've been eating it.

South Forty

• Horseradish has come back finally, behind the probable forsythia, which is doing OK.
• Ben is doing well; Martha has some bug damage, but looking OK to me. (Ed worries.)

Potager

• Put the five cherry tomatoes in the ground. Several have flowers already. Put bamboo hoops between them (where we'll put beans) and a spiral "stick" at each tomato. Next we'll run a bamboo pole between the hoops.
• Munched some fraises de bois.

Entry

• Nothing happening here.