Another Friday

(Have Lady Gaga - Poker Face running through my head)

Finally a weekend where, as far as I know, I have nothing I have to do. Yay! I plan to plant my pepper babies. I have bell, poblano, jalapeno and cayenne seedlings. I will also make my herb window box garden. I may need to replace some of my green bean plants/seedlings. They're coming up small or with warped leaves. Not sure what would cause that. The purple green beans I planted are growing like gangbusters. The green, not so much.

We've had rain every day this week (since last Friday). Everything looks like it's growing well, but I think the soil might need a chance to dry a little bit. The lettuces are growing really well, but as usual I dropped too many seeds and now need to do some major thinning. They're supposed to be 6 inches apart. Mine are more like 6 plants in every inch. Thinning is fun tho, as I eat the plants I pull up. They're small but they have so much flavor and are quite good. If you grow nothing else, I highly recommend growing your own lettuce. You won't believe the difference from grocery store greens, even organic field greens. Fresh from the earth cannot be beaten.

Off for coffee. I do hope to post garden pictures this weekend.

Bean babies!

I have a plethora of bean babies sprouting. I will take some photos and post them later. I also have cucumber seedlings that will be put into the ground this weekend. I have a LOT of lettuce coming up and marigolds are also sprouting. The tomato plants seem happy and we're all looking forward to the rain they're predicting for this weekend.

I bought 14 bags of soil (21 cubic feet) from Farmer D to fill the 6x3 bed and the 3x3 bed. Once I filled the beds, I added soil/compost from my disassembled compost pile because I wanted to get some earthworms in the soil. When I dug the compost, there were more worms than dirt! I think they will be happy in their new homes. The soil from Farmer D's was black black BLACK and smelled so good. I also amended with a little bit of organic fertilizer.

I have herbs to plant too - basil, oregano, thyme, sage... Not sure if I'm going to put them in the window box, or intermingle them with the veggies. I think I will at least plant the basil around the tomatoes. The sage, thyme and oregano I might keep in the window box planter, but put it out near the raised beds while they're starting out to get them some nice sun. My window is actually not very sunny for long, as I have seen when trying to get these seedling started.

I also have about 3 dozen pepper seeds in peat pods but nothing has come up yet. Not sure where I'll plant those when they do start. I may need another bed! I do hope they grow tho. I would love to have some success with the poblanos and learn to make the cheese stuffed peppers that I love so much at Mexican restaurants.

Okay, back to work. More later, with pics hopefully.

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