stubbed toes and mud pies

[flowerbug]

it was actually warm outside when i ventured out to do some weeding. not much really needed to be done but i wanted to head off some blooming speedwells before they could drop yet more seeds.

half an hour later and that was enough. i could tell i hadn't been doing my knee bends lately. heh...

my token first day of weeding and gardening this spring.

 

[ninnymary]

It was 72* today when I took my niece out to lunch for her birthday and it was almost chilly!

Got my raised bed amended and planted cilantro, bok choi, tatsoi, radishes, pole beans and jalapenos and Jimmy Nardello peppers. Supposed to rain Tuesday and Wednesday and I wanted those seeds to get some rainwater.

For some reason my jalapenos failed under the grow lights so I figured I would just buy a 6 pack. Well no 6 packs around and each one is at least $3.50. Well when you need 10 plants that's a lot of money! Lesson learned for next year to do better.

Last year my son asked mid May if it was too late to plant peppers and I said yes but to go for it. He had gotten some Turkish pepper seeds from a vendor at the farmer's market. He direct sowed them and they grew and produced abundantly!

We shall see how my peppers do direct sowed.

Mary

 

[flowerbug]

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We shall see how my peppers do direct sowed.

if you have a warm enough and long enough season they should do ok eventually. by going direct seed now you would miss the first round.

 

[flowerbug]

today i took the two worm buckets outside so i could check them out and top them off with scraps.

i've not looked at them in a while but figured outside was nice enough that it would probably be a good idea just in case there were any bugs in there that wanted to fly around.

good thing, as i went to pick them up i could see through the mesh cover that there were plenty of fungus gnats in both of them.

got 'em all set and was happy to see healthy worms in both of them. what goodies i put in this time should get them both far enough along towards planting time but i'm not sure how much of either bucket i will use for planting this year because i'm starting all over on rebuilding my population. we'll see how they look when i get there.

 

[flowerbug]

hahaha, while looking at something else i found some pictures from way back that i thought i had lost.

most of them won't get posted but at least now i have the originals instead of only thumbnail sized ones that i had loaded to my website on-line.

oh yay, more projects to do...

 

[flowerbug]

the other day i took some time to recalibrate my monitor to make sure the colors were as good as i could get them. that was step 1.

step 2 was today where i could take some time to play around with a few programs and see how they worked.

i like these results a lot better than what i had before as the first example is what i had before and the newer version is below (both pictures were generated from the same base raw file from the camera from back when i was fiddling around with this last time):

bigger pictures with more details:

what do you think?