Not Quite Square One

[bluesgarden]

Pumpkins, melons, and lettuce.

There are still things growing around here just... not in the garden. Which tried to eat my boot again today. Bad garden, no biscuit! It still has tomorrow to work on drying out, but then two days of rain again, the first of which is currently forecasting another 1-2 inches (2.54-5.08 cm) of rain. Riiiiight, that's just brilliant then.

(Guess which tomato plants are doing the best? The ones I dumped out of their pots on top of the manure pile on Monday that have been laying there, bare rooted, since then. Yes, really.)

Fortunately, I have the greenhouse! Which may get added onto this summer/fall although not, precisely, to make it larger, but to add in space for a cold frame (of sorts). D's considering adding a middle section, which would get 2 feet (0.61 meter) cut out of the floor on either side. Then there'd be 6 inch (15.24 cm) sides added around the cut out area which would be filled with topsoil. It would theoretically allow me to grow some vegetables pretty much year round - carrots, lettuce, etc.

That plan isn't set in stone, but he did come home with a couple of new (to me) washtubs that I'm filling with soil and planting/transplanting things into this week. Washtubs would be useful in the garden regardless, but having found my original plans washed out, I'm running with an alternative until I can get the garden back on track. I figure I can get lettuce and radishes into them regardless, and from there it just depends on what else I can scrounge up container-wise. A half a dozen 5 gallon buckets may be growing seed potatoes from the nursery.


Today though, I was actually transplanting various things into larger pots, some of which were desperate for it.


The impatiens, namely. Sorry kids.


The onions are looking a little wild and crazy. I transplanted the pot of Pacific Pearl bunching onions with the poorest germination (and therefore the fewest plants) to individual cells. I'm hoping to do all of them, but first I want to make sure these ones live! It required trimming the roots to a few inches as well as trimming the tops back to about 6 inches, so I want to see how they take it before I risk my storage onions. All of 'em got a haircut though.


The basil is just hanging out and smelling good.


The major transplants were the impatiens, the Ballade/Sky & Ice daisies, and the peppers. You can see the onions' new trim about halfway down on the right hand side of the photo - the green, spiky thing. :P I also transferred the spearmint to pots and discovered that it's actually Kentucky Colonel mint, the 'official' mint for mint juleps. It was recruiting the daisies as foot soldiers when I left.

I did discover a mite or other bug infestation on some of the flowers that had damaged some leaves, so hopefully cutting off the damaged leaves took care of that. That's a wait and see kind of thing for now.