Friday, May 13, 2011

Hoping for rain

Sheep and Wool last weekend, but I haven't worked up the energy to boil all that down into a reasonable sized post.  Let's just say, Blonde Knitter and K1Frog2 were here, we went, we saw, we petted wool, it was a great time.  For the first time I made it around the entire festival, and all in one day.  Intense!

This week it's back to my somewhat neglected garden, although mostly what I have to do right now is wait for the ground to warm up for the last of the seedlings to go out, and hope for some nice rain soon.  Here are current pix:


Baby romaine lettuce above, slightly older mixed loose leaf lettuces below.  You can also see the snow peas growing at the end of the box.  They're starting to go faster now.


The roots in the other box have also sprouted, but the sprouts are still too small to take a good picture of.  When I asked one of my gardening teachers why they're going so slowly, she said, "It's cold this year!"

The center of the bed above is being saved for the warm weather crops still in the sun porch: eggplant, watermelon, tomato, basil...


and okra!  See the seedlings in the small pots below, sitting in the big pot with the indoor lettuces.  Still have about half of the indoor lettuces left.  Hope I get to put these seedlings out soon.  It just isn't quite sunny enough on the sunporch, not enough hours of sunlight on any one side, so the seedlings are rather leggy.


That's today's update, happy gardening!