Yep, the Usual
May. 26th, 2010 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluesgardenYesterday didn't quite go according to plan. I did get through the errands - gardening and otherwise - but a computer issue with the desktop sidelined any work in the actual garden. Quite a few Blue Screens of Death and an almost complete re-install of Windows XP later, I ended up having to order new RAM from Crucial, which should arrive on Friday. At which point I'll have to reinstall XP (again). Grrr. Arrgh.
On the bright side, RAM costs between a half and a third as much as the last time I bought it.
Today it was just plain HOT. I keep looking at the thermometer and thinking Okay, it really has to be hotter than that. But it's just because we're near the record high for this time of year - 20°F above the average - so it only feels blistering. Thankfully, tomorrow it should drop back to reasonable and will hopefully stay there for a while. It's also supposed to rain but looks like passing showers (40% chance), which is downright helpful so I'm quite okay with it.
Despite the heat, I managed to get in the 6 new rows of beans, transplant the watermelons into their row, and transplant all the leeks. The beans also received a light top dressing of fertilizer and a heavier one of manure, which the sunflowers also had added on. Watering cans were hauled around, the hose was added to, and numerous half-dead tomato plants were dug out to make room for the new ones to go in tomorrow. The radishes in the garden were thinned as the survivors were too close together for them to all develop as they should, so there's half as many now but the roots already had the red/white color development going on when I pulled them out. :P
There are a number of tiny tomato seedlings coming up just in front of the spearmint. They're growing in the corn section, so they don't get to keep growing there, but I'm amused nonetheless - their location would mark them as either Black Krim or the volunteer variety from the pea patch last year that I transplanted. I might let a couple hang around until they're big enough to move, just for the heck of it.
What I did accomplish took all day as I object to heat stroke and usually try to avoid it. Transplanting still to go: tomatoes (there are 40 spots and currently 48 possible plants *facepalm*), basil, peppers (one row, probably with seedlings left over), beets, the 2 sunflower plants, and allllll the onions. There's also sage and oregano to go into containers. It's another week before I start more lettuce, beets, or carrots and two weeks until another row of sweet corn is planted.
Clay soil is still evil, just so we're clear on that. My hands hurt from crushing dried chunks of clay in order to actually get enough 'soil' around the plants in some areas of the garden. The occasional sandy/loamy soil area is enough to put me right over the moon with joy at this point.
Now if I can just stay awake until bed time. *yawwwwn*
On the bright side, RAM costs between a half and a third as much as the last time I bought it.
Today it was just plain HOT. I keep looking at the thermometer and thinking Okay, it really has to be hotter than that. But it's just because we're near the record high for this time of year - 20°F above the average - so it only feels blistering. Thankfully, tomorrow it should drop back to reasonable and will hopefully stay there for a while. It's also supposed to rain but looks like passing showers (40% chance), which is downright helpful so I'm quite okay with it.
Despite the heat, I managed to get in the 6 new rows of beans, transplant the watermelons into their row, and transplant all the leeks. The beans also received a light top dressing of fertilizer and a heavier one of manure, which the sunflowers also had added on. Watering cans were hauled around, the hose was added to, and numerous half-dead tomato plants were dug out to make room for the new ones to go in tomorrow. The radishes in the garden were thinned as the survivors were too close together for them to all develop as they should, so there's half as many now but the roots already had the red/white color development going on when I pulled them out. :P
There are a number of tiny tomato seedlings coming up just in front of the spearmint. They're growing in the corn section, so they don't get to keep growing there, but I'm amused nonetheless - their location would mark them as either Black Krim or the volunteer variety from the pea patch last year that I transplanted. I might let a couple hang around until they're big enough to move, just for the heck of it.
What I did accomplish took all day as I object to heat stroke and usually try to avoid it. Transplanting still to go: tomatoes (there are 40 spots and currently 48 possible plants *facepalm*), basil, peppers (one row, probably with seedlings left over), beets, the 2 sunflower plants, and allllll the onions. There's also sage and oregano to go into containers. It's another week before I start more lettuce, beets, or carrots and two weeks until another row of sweet corn is planted.
Clay soil is still evil, just so we're clear on that. My hands hurt from crushing dried chunks of clay in order to actually get enough 'soil' around the plants in some areas of the garden. The occasional sandy/loamy soil area is enough to put me right over the moon with joy at this point.
Now if I can just stay awake until bed time. *yawwwwn*
