Fun in the Sun

[kengr]

fayanora and I finsally got out to Portland Nursery today. We got a few plants, a couple of pots and a *big* bag of compost. I decided it was worth spending money on a cab to get the bag of compost home.

After that we went to my garden plot which we'd gotten ready for planting almost 2 weeks back and finished the prep work (mostly digging a "trench" to add extra compost where the carrots & radishes were going to go in)

Then it was adding the compost from the huge bag, and mixing soil & compost and evening stuff out.

That took a while with several rests. It's not a huge plot, but neither Fay nor I are in great shape. Especially for hands & knees type work.

Final step was planting seeds (carrots, radishes, cucumber, lemon cucumber, zuccini and some broccoli that I don't really expect much oof) and moving the few starter plants (3 kinds of tomato and an eggplant) to good spots.

Fortunately there are several leftover tomato cages from previous years. I used one each for the three tomato plants and one for the lemon cucumbers (they train well to climb).

From now on it'll be watering, weeding and (eventually) harvesting.

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[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, I need to weed today. Gee, thanks. :-)

I've had a rude flower bed by my back steps for decades. A couple of years ago I enlarged it to include the entire patch of ground between the back porch and steps and the driveway. I've had mixed success with this new plot, mainly because last year I decided to see what volunteered, and got mostly one weedy (though spectacularly flowering) plant.

This year, thanks largely to having some stumps ground out last year, I decided to do a proper job. I put a thick layer of much on the previous flower bed and where two stumps were removed (the coarse sawdust that left providing excellent drainage) and then put bagged soil over that. *Then* I planted.

Naturally, within a couple of weeks robins tore apart the smallest of the new plots, out front. Also, a kid walking through my yard apparently (according to a neighbor who saw him) deliberately stepped in the other new plot. Ah, well; both still have stuff coming up, as does the main bed.