Busy Weekdays & Experiments

 

Things are popping in the yard now. Today we made it up to around 80. Tomorrow is warmer. It's very fast, and this necessitates action.

The Teeny Weeny Free Zucchini garden finally has a plan. We're going to take the old raised bed that we bought from Wayfair our first year here (4x4), paint it, and put it out front for the neighbors. Like a Little Free Library, only with vegetables.

This is a before picture. I primed it this evening.

It does feel like a thunderstorm, which is predicted for today and tomorrow, scattered. This makes me reluctant to plant out anything. I seeded some merlot lettuce, Paris Island lettuce, & buttercrunch lettuce, but covered them with gauze like that in the photo above. 

I couldn't quite persuade myself to put any tomatoes or peppers in the ground today with violent storms predicted. Even covered, they are pretty fragile. 

I also dropped a few sunflower seeds & the rest of the milkweed seeds in the wildflower garden area. We'll see if any of that comes up. We have not had the best of luck there.

Much yet to do. Got to dig out the rocks at the front of the deck and expand that bed for sunflowers and squash. And, of course, we need to get our 4 yards of dirt spread around.

And this weekend we're off to Wisconsin to the Stoughton Syttende Mai Festival in Wisconsin to run the 20 mile training run there. So the weekend will be cut short. 

Feeling a little pressure to get things in the ground now.