Yea, I took a vacation, and a trip north to visit family and take care of some business. I came back to find that my other half did not care for my seedlings quite as I would have, and I lost a tomato seedling or two. Here's what I have going on: The garden expansion is expanding. I turned as much as I could and then couldn't turn no more! I covered the area with manure and tonight, I will cover with wet newspaper to limit weed growth and then cover those with bark mulch. The difference between the earth of the expansion and the earth of the garden right next to it is like night and day. The expansion is hard, packed, dead - nothing lives in that section except some weeds a a few bermuda grass, plus a grub or two. The original garden plot is FULL of life - worms, rolly polly potato bugs, and the ground is soft soft soft! The soil is black, the beneficial bugs are happy. There are no grubs in the original garden plot. I have done well, and am satisfied with that portion. Hopefully, this new section will pep up quickly and take notice, producing me some fine foods this summer.
I took two days to work on the garden expansion and transplant some of the seedlings. I got the basil and cukes moved to 4 inch pots. The squash are plenty big enough to go directly in the ground so I'll do that this weekend. No point in transplanting them twice, I just need to plan out my garden and pick a good spot for them. Plus, I need some cans to place around them in the garden, so I can put copper tape to keep the slugs from devouring them while they are too small to fight back. haha!
The spinach is doing well, and the tomato seeds are still quite small so I left them be in their seedling pots. The 2nd to the last image is my mystery sprouts. I thought they might be arugula but in looking at other arugula seeds online, they don't look the same. I continue to play the waiting game to determine what they are.
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