weekend update

Tomatoes are getting too big for their wraps. So I polled The Tomato Lady about when it was safe to take off the row cover. She wrote a nice reply saying she'd do a blog post when she took her covers off! Basil is doing well.





I put out the yard sprinklers for the new grass, the existing grass, and to see what weeds germinate. Mostly pigweed and purslane. I was pleasantly surprised at the number of dead-looking grass plugs that revived with a few days of watering. Taylor continues to be a butt about digging up the "lawn."







East bed is filling in a bit more.

weekend update

Saturday   I finally put the row cover on the two tomatoes. Basically wrapped the cages and secured it with mini binder clips. Italian parsley has croaked. Maybe I'll pick up a pepper plant at the Farmers' Market for that spot.



Set up some sprinklers in the yard. Plan to do several rounds of watering/weed germination/hoe under, then seed grass. Hit the bindweed with the hoe.

I also plugged in the coleus I picked up Friday night at Albertsons (sigh).





Sunday   Rain! And hail! In between showers, planted poppy mallow by the little patio retaining wall, and the leadwort in the front-door bed.







Planted the grass and put up some janky chicken-wire-and bamboo-stake nonsense to keep the dog out of it.





The east bed is looking pretty good (fingers crossed).