Oh so I have been gardening

For someone’s who’s been blogging for about five years now, I sure forget how to do it sometimes. My super lazy personality has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

But I have been gardening for the past month. I barely have any photos to prove this, but if I write it out, maybe you’ll believe me:

• Everything has been or is in the process of hardening off. Stalks grew thick and sturdy under the ugly grow lights contraption I set up. The shop lights definitely worked much better than the sun by the window method and starting the seeds later helped with the timing of transplanting.
• The organic raised bed is all planted out as of April 12. It contains 2 marigolds, 5 genoa basils, two tomatillos, one san marzano, one better boy, one arkansas traveler and one isis candy.  I also sowed white lisbon and evergreen bunching onions, as well as one more basil and marigold flower. Everything gets more space this year which hopefully will help the plants not get stressed out in the heat of the summer.
• The first self-watering container is almost all planted. There is one arkansas traveler, one better boy, one marigold and one basil. I just need to add a swiss chard seedling.
• The second swc will be built soon and will hold all eight pepper seedlings I have.
• The side garden plot that’s been Miracle-Gro’d into oblivion is almost all planted out, too. There’s one arkansas traveler (theme?), one san marzano, three basil, two marigolds, evergreen bunching onions sowed and the rosemary bush from last year. There’s one more tomato plant going in.
• It’s going to be an amish paste seedling that we bought at the community garden sale. I was looking for this variety in seeds, but couldn’t find it way back in February so I thought I’d give it a go now. We also got an italian/greek oregano plant that’s been put in a terra cotta pot. It’s quite lovely and named Bruno.

So that’s about a month’s worth of gardening right there. I didn’t amend the beds any further this year, although I had grand plans of getting the free compost from the county. Maybe next year.

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