What Did You Do In The Garden?

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all of them can use whatever organic materials i can scrounge to put in there.

Of course, it is the same in the big veggie garden but so much comes home and ends up in the small piece of ground allocated to veggies here. And, of course, there are kitchen scraps through the Winter from produce arriving from "elsewhere." They find a home but the temporary hoop house goes up over more than half the veggie ground sometimes before the soil is complete thawed -- and the succession plantings commence . "Turn over" is high!

 

[flowerbug]

shelled beans this morning and went "Ooh! Ahh!", picked the last round of hot peppers from the Sweet and Hot plants, but they were to give away because while i could eat them i didn't really like them. gave most of them to the person who gave me the plants to begin with so that sort of completed the circle.

went out and started getting the North Garden weeded and cleaned up for winter. of course as i'm puttering around in there i'm also transplanting some of the creeping thyme to fill in spots that are bare and getting weeds in them so they'll be eventually less weedy.

this is the same garden which contains spots of Irish Moss which i've tried to get to spread but what is really funny is that after i transplanted some spots of it and kept the creeping thyme from taking it over it ended up dying back last winter for some reason in the largest patch of it i had, but the the areas where it is covered and having to compete with the creeping thyme it is doing ok and now i have a completely new patch of it that has shown up many feet away from where it was before. so i may have somehow transplanted spores or bits of it and didn't know it. so for now on i'm just going to let it do it's own thing and see if it really spreads a lot more or not. so that experiment continues. it's a pretty plant and actually blends very well with the creeping thyme so you wouldn't know it was in there until it flowers or you look pretty close at it.

pepper plants and weeds got buried in that garden and i fixed up some of the border bricks and then transplanted some more thyme along that edge to hold up those bricks better as they keep falling down as the soil gets washed down again and again.

 

[Branching Out]

Yesterday was spent cleaning up the garden, and at the end of the day I sat down and collected seed from quite a number of different lettuce plants. Those that had leaves that were green with purple flecks were grouped in one envelope for growing out next year. However one plant caught my attention with its psychedelic purple and cranberry patches in strikingly beautiful saturated hues, so that one got its own seed envelope. 🥰

 

[SPedigrees]

one plant caught my attention with its psychedelic purple and cranberry patches in strikingly beautiful saturated hues, so that one got its own seed envelope. 🥰

Those leaves are really cool looking. I'd buy seeds that would produce lettuce like this!