From songbird@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 23 09:02:40 2021
too dry here the past few months.
first peas planted are up and growing ok. in spite of
several pretty good frosts so these are hardy enough to
plant even earlier than i did but i'm not sure how much
of a difference that will make since as the soil gets
cooler they take longer to sprout. still good to know i
don't have to worry as much as i was about them freezing.
the second planting of peas are just now sprouting and
at the same time i also planted some early beans to see
how they would do.
i wasn't sure if the forecast would swing back to cold
or not so it was always a chance the beans would not make
it but this was a test planting and the seed quality
wasn't all that great either (which is why i was willing
to risk them). yesterday i went out to finish planting
that garden and there were at least three sprouts of the
beans coming up so they weren't in nearly as bad of shape
as they looked.
it only took me about a half hour to finish planting
the rest of that one area in the garden with a bunch of
Purple Dove beans. i'm trying to do more block plantings
this season instead of intermixing/interplanting beans as
i have in the past (to encourage cross breeding). it was
causing too many beans to be lost under other plants as
not all beans finish up at the same time. in that short
time i was out there planting and then watering i did
work up a good sweat. it's not even the end of May and
the AC has been running and i'm a wimp. :)
also this season i'm not planting beans on the fence.
i'll put them in other places and prop them up somehow
or let them sprawl. a few times in the past i've let
them climb up the lily plants.
we have our warm weather plants ready to go and should
get them planted out the next few weeks.
a lot of chances of rain in the forecast for today and
the rest of this week. at last. we really need some
good soaking rains. the large drainage ditch out back
normally runs all season but it is flowing now at less
than a cubic foot per second, that's very unusual for
this time of the year. it is too bad that i have so
many other things going on right now as with that low
of a flow rate it would be a good time for me to get in
there and do some rebuilding of some eroded banks using
all the dirt and grass that is in the middle of the ditch
where it doesn't belong. not enough time or not enough
of me's to do that... :)
the project i'm working on to clear along the pathway
and house drain cover i put down is just about done and
should be ready to be planted as soon as i need it.
a lot of weeding to get caught up on in the north garden
but that is ok. it is easy to weed in there now that i
have a lot of plants moved to the edges and more of the
edges are covered with creeping thyme that helps keep
some of the weeds down.
my test planting of some sandwort worked out ok and
i'm finally seeing how the sandwort fares as a companion
planting with the thyme. it looks nicer to me and the
thyme keeps the weeds down.