Thursday, 26-May-11

Yard

• Ed raking up trimmings from baylaurel hedge. Mock orange blooming prettily. Another white-flowered shrub just beyond that also happy. Narcissus path ready for mowing. Grass not growing, but weeds and tree seeds are.

Pots

• No sign of action in the anemone pot. Purchased petunia hanging basket nice. Also the one from last year with the return plant (self-seeded?) plus one pinkish white geranium.
• Potted basil is lemon basil. I meant to get the Mediterranean one, oops.

Salad garden

• One of the basils seems to have disappeared with the fosse septique emptying. Where we also discovered that a lot of the sage has rooted in the ground outside its pot. Should deal with this soon.
• Still picking red-leaf lettuce.
• Ed left only one of last year's cherry toms, but it's doing well.

South Forty

• No sign of asparagus action.
• Ben and Martha doing well, although Martha seems to have some kind of non-lethal fungus.

Potager

• Summer squash doing well enough outside the fence, although they could use more mulch.
• Leaving a narrow path at the end next to fence, I planted 4 staggered rows of corn. The last row (innermost) has two rolls of not-yet-germinated seeds.
• The planting area is too wide to reach the middle from the sides, so I'm leaving some little paths in between blocks of plants.
• Planted out broccolis, all nine of them. (Eggplants still haven't germinated.)
• Planted haricots verts on the odd number hoops between the tomatoes; planted fêves on the even numbered hoops. Right in the ground.

Entry

• Perpetually ugly.