raised bed update

In the raised bed this year:

• 3 regular chive plants
• 1 garlic chive plant
• mustard
• arugula
• 2 Paul Robeson tomato plants (1 croaked, curly top virus)
• perennial arugula
• 1 thyme plant
• 3 basil plants

Herbage from left to right: garlic chives (white flowers); basil; thyme (hiding under basil); perennial arugula (yellow flowers)



Mustard:




First Robeson:

side bed update

Planted in the side bed this year:

• 2 Sungold tomato plants
• 3 red kuri squash plants
  (planted 5: 1 croaked, one transplanted to Stacy's)
• 1 Chinese giant sweet bell pepper plant (from Renée, croaked)
• 1 jalapeño pepper plant (from Renée, spicy!)
• 1 sage plant (culinary)
• 1 agastache (not culinary)

The squash had, as squash do, taken over. I had to cut a bunch of it away from the sage, pepper, agastache, and out of the tomatoes. Discovered a few squash in the process.



Sage:



Agastache:



Jalapeño:



Sungolds:



Red kuri squash and Sungolds:

herbage

Walked over to Payne's today and picked up a thyme start and a hose end repair kit for the soaker hose. (Wrong size. [rassafrassa] So I scavenged an end piece from some old unused drip line. Seemed to be holding, so I buried the soakers under the straw.) So the herb area in the raised bed now has three sparse-looking chive plants, one vigorous garlic chive plant, three basil plants (two okay, one struggling), one thyme, and two perennial arugula transplants from the ever-fabulous Bev. Had to add the bamboo stakes after the dog tried to lie down up there.



Arugula:



Chives:



Thyme, basil behind:

planting tomatoes and basil

It was overcast out, so I put in the basil and tomatoes after work. Raked aside old straw, watered, dug in two bags of mushroom compost. Had the drip hoses all set up and then I accidentally put a hole thru the end one. Will have to water by hand until I get a replacement/fix. Planted, then re-mulched with a mix of old and new straw.

Hardening off for the last couple days.



Sungolds in the side bed:






Robesons and basil in the raised bed. Lots more room since I ripped out the sage and without the fennel that died this winter. I hope the chives do better without the crowding. Also need to replace the thyme.