Lettuce

I see it has been about 2 weeks since I fed the garden. Will do that soon, perhaps the weekend. I haven't mentioned the lettuce plant that came from nowhere. None of the lettuce I planted from the saved seed came up, but a single plant, with pretty, rosy-varied leaves came up between the one broccoli plant that grew from seed, over in the corner of A, and the cilantro that has suddenly grown quite lush. I will probably harvest that broccoli soon to give the lettuce space.

Peppers

Over the weekend I added 2 anaheim pepper plants and one tomato, 'Large Cherry' by name, all from Home Depot. The tomato is from Chef Jeff, and is a nice, hearty-looking plant. I planted it in the corner of B, by the pole, where no snap pea came up. Most of the rest of that back row is snap peas, but I figure I can add in the tomatoes a little later. I put 2 pepper plants in B and one over in A near where the Thai pepper did so well last year. I loved the Thai pepper plant. It was so prolific, and the long, slim peppers were so pretty, starting out green and turning to orange and red. But I don't need to grow so many hot peppers. My one anaheim plant did well, and those peppers are more useful. The other thing I did over the weekend was feed the garden with dilute fish emulsion. This was very interesting to the dogs.

Progress

I think I have some arugula coming up, I believe those are the heart-shaped seed leaves I see in the dog footprint. Lovely. I would like to have lots of lettuce and greens out there, so at lunchtime I could just go cut a bowlful. How great would that be! I don't know if I mentioned I have 9 out of 16 beets coming up. It isn't too late to replant on those. At least 3 of the snap peas I replanted are sprouting now. I don't see any more florets coming on some of the broccoli plants, so they can make way for peppers. The parsley is lush and beautiful, and I have many cilantro seedlings. Should feed everything. Maybe this weekend.

Sun Day

Sunday the sun came out at last. I spent the whole afternoon in the backyard, not necessarily working that hard, but unwilling to waste a minute of the sun. I got so warm I changed to a sleeveless shirt. Last year I planted from an assortment of lettuce seeds, and the only one that did well was a light green leaf lettuce, as I remember. So I saved some seeds when it bloomed. I planted a few of those where the dog had disturbed my arugula planting, and also in the gaps where I had planted spinach that didn't come up. I have maybe 3 promising spinach seedlings. I replanted snap peas where nothing came up, a total of 7 replantings, I think, more than the total that have come up. I don't know why the seed-planting is so low-yield. Must work on that.