Garden nattering
Jul. 17th, 2023 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wyld_dandelyonProgress, health wise, continues to be slow and unpredictable. For example, the air quality yesterday was worse than it is today, but to me it felt worse today.
We did get some gardening done, mostly weeding around roses and watering the old fashioned way, since we weren't able to replace the broken seep hose before planting peas and beans and sunflowers along the area where the hose would need to be dug in. Peas are going great, beans are starting to be big enough to notice, but the sunflowers seem to be totally absent. That's puzzling, since I bought new seeds. Maybe they just germinate slower than beans? Anyway, trying to plant the seep hose now would be likely to destroy some of the veggies, so we'll probably stick with watering in the evening for the rest of the summer.
I do have some green tomatoes growing now, and the cucumber and squash plants are growing. And we finally got the sweet potato seedlings that grew from an old sweet potato in the kitchen in the ground. They might not have enough sun and enough time to make big tubers, but any tubers would be really cool.
Today, now that the day lilies are just about done blooming, I worked on digging up day lilies and other weeds that were encroaching on a couple of the roses, and got My Angel to help with digging up some weed trees in that area. Then we gave the roses some compost and ash from the cooking pit and watered them thoroughly. I always worry when I'm weeding close to a rose, because disturbing the roots can make them unhappy, but the ones I weeded around and gifted with compost last year really set out a lot of new branches and had lots of roses this spring, so I'll keep doing that. And at least today I didn't see the rose moving when I dug the shovel in, which is a good sign.
I ate some mulberries and peas while I was out there too. It's nice to have snacks to pick when I'm out in the garden.
We did get some gardening done, mostly weeding around roses and watering the old fashioned way, since we weren't able to replace the broken seep hose before planting peas and beans and sunflowers along the area where the hose would need to be dug in. Peas are going great, beans are starting to be big enough to notice, but the sunflowers seem to be totally absent. That's puzzling, since I bought new seeds. Maybe they just germinate slower than beans? Anyway, trying to plant the seep hose now would be likely to destroy some of the veggies, so we'll probably stick with watering in the evening for the rest of the summer.
I do have some green tomatoes growing now, and the cucumber and squash plants are growing. And we finally got the sweet potato seedlings that grew from an old sweet potato in the kitchen in the ground. They might not have enough sun and enough time to make big tubers, but any tubers would be really cool.
Today, now that the day lilies are just about done blooming, I worked on digging up day lilies and other weeds that were encroaching on a couple of the roses, and got My Angel to help with digging up some weed trees in that area. Then we gave the roses some compost and ash from the cooking pit and watered them thoroughly. I always worry when I'm weeding close to a rose, because disturbing the roots can make them unhappy, but the ones I weeded around and gifted with compost last year really set out a lot of new branches and had lots of roses this spring, so I'll keep doing that. And at least today I didn't see the rose moving when I dug the shovel in, which is a good sign.
I ate some mulberries and peas while I was out there too. It's nice to have snacks to pick when I'm out in the garden.
