Mostly Plants

The garden is coming along quite nicely now.  I visited today, did some digging, and mulched around the brussels sprouts.  Three cubic feet of mulch didn’t go nearly as far as I thought they would, and I gestimate it would take about ten bags to mulch the whole garden.  Probably cheaper to plant chives, clover, and other companion/cover crops, and just mulch the walkways.  My radishes are sprouting like mad, and I clearly planted too many of them.  Oh well, seeds are cheap.  Spinach is just starting to peek out, but should be very happy after tomorrow’s rain.

Can anybody explain how a 50 foot roll and a 25 foot roll of chicken wire only make it 3/4 of the way around a 60-foot perimeter garden?

Also, good news!  The potato that I thought was dead is not.  One stalk died, but the other one that was just emerging is still healthy, and a new one is emerging right next to the dead one.

Bad news: the things that I thought were volunteer lettuce may well be weeds after all, but I am going to keep them around until I can identify them.

More good news!  Ginger bailed out of her apartment for the summer and left her entire herb garden with me!  I now  have oodles and oodles of thyme and mint that need to be planted, plus a few other herbs including a horehound.  For now, they are all on my roof.  I think I am going to propagate the horehound and make some horehound ale or mead.  If anybody has a good recipe for such a thing, I would be much obliged if you would leave it in the comments.

The horseshoe of plants in the foreground are my pepper plants (aside: pepper plants produce peppers and gardeners gather garlic are two morse code exercises that I will never forget doing, although I have long since forgotten much of the code!), others are scattered throughout.  The herbs in the peat pots still haven’t sprouted, which is possibly related to my being injudicious about keeping the soil moist between rains last week.  The horehound is the white, scraggly thing on the left.  The Alberta Spruce in the background is not quite dead yet.  Possibly getting better.

Better news: Wordpress suddenly handles my image alignments properly!