Beltane Waxing Planting Moon
Got some plants in the mail. I didn’t start anything from seed this last winter after starting way too many the season before. Maybe this winter I’ll hit a happy medium. These are heirloom plants, so I can save the seeds and plant them next year. Would somebody remind me to do that when fall comes around?
The flower garden has gotten the short end of the stick this spring and it shows. Weeds and grass in places where there should be neither. While Kate’s away, I plan to get some work done on the flowers since the vegetable garden will be planted, irrigation problems are largely resolved and I signed out of the Museum for the two Fridays she’s gone.
We do have a lot of things growing. The leeks have jumped up as have the sugar snap peas, beets, onions, fennel, mustard greens, garlic, parsnip, strawberries, apples, pears, cherries, currants, quince and blueberries. The radicchio, thyme, dill, rosemary, flat parsley and lavender are also off to a good start. The potatoes are, as they say, in the trenches and we await their emergence. The whole fruit group is still relatively new to us since the orchard is in its third growing season, but only beginning to actually bear fruit. A lot of critters have evolved that love fruit: insects, fungi, birds. Just how much predation we can expect is still unknown.
I got an e-mail back from Gary Reuter at the U about the comb I photographed. “The bees,” he said, “are making extra comb. Take it off.”
The red car went in for its 260,000 mile check up today. It’s in fine shapes with the exception of a little bit baling wire and bubble gum necessary for the next 100,000 miles. Toyota dealerships are not intrinsically happy places right now, but they’ve always done well by us and I appreciate them.
planted carrots and beets I didn’t water them in. Probably should have. The potatoes needed mounding and I discovered that the beets and turnips both benefit from mounding too. If a portion of these tuberous vegetables stick up above ground, they turn green and inedible.