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| Cavan planting bean seeds in the veggie garden. |
1) Radish, beet, and carrot seedlings have emerged and seem to be growing well. I may have to thin them out this weekend.
2) Pea transplants are now staked and thriving, and the pea seeds I sowed directly into the garden have just poked out of the soil.
3) Spinach seedlings are not dead, but are floppy and reflect little growth since moving them to the raised beds. You can't win them all, I suppose.
4) Bean and cucumber seeds were planted yesterday, with the help of my sometimes-dedicated-assistant, Cavan.
5) Lettuce, carrot, and pepper seedlings started indoors are still waiting to be transplanted. I have to till the third garden bed before this can happen. Maybe I'll get around to it this weekend, if I'm not too tired.
6) Broccoli transplants are doing well. They are just now sprouting their second pair of leaves.
7) No action with the strawberry roots I planted, gosh, how long ago was that? Hmmm. Disappointing.
8) All starter plants bought at the nursery are doing great. The eggplant leaves are multiplying and two of my tomato plants are already flowering!
9) Hubby built a three-foot critter fence around the veggie beds to ward off groundhogs and rabbits. The groundhog trap has seen no action since my tulips were eaten. I hope critter has moved on to someone else's property.
'Till next time. (Ha ha, "till"!)
our strawberries have been in "forever"- nothing here either....
ReplyDeleteAfter transplanting dianthus and planting marigolds I washed my cotton garden gloves while still on my hands in a bucket. To my surprise my hands were cleaner, even under the fingernails, than when I remove my gloves and wash my hands. Now I have clean gloves the next time I garden. I get excited over little things.
ReplyDeleteForgot to say groundhogs can come into the garden from underneath. A fence won't necessarily keep them out. The fence would have to be buried at least a foot below the garden.
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