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Green Relaxation
May. 4th, 2009 09:17 pmToday was one of those workdays that somehow seemed like it was a lot longer and a lot more painful than the eight hours it actually was. But I persisted and Got Stuff Done so that I'm now only a little behind, and was responsible and did shoppings and stuff (it wouldn't be so fun if Wonderful Husband and I didn't have cereal to eat in the morning) and then came home and gardened.
It's amazing how destressing it can be to sort through the plants you've started from seed and see which are big enough to go where they need to go. In this case they're going to my mother... fourteen Ruby Queen corn plants, two Vanilla Ice melons, a Green Zebra tomato, a Black Krim tomato, four dill starts, and two each of borage, jalepenos, and chard. Plus putting a few more seeds in to sprout and separating out the itty bitty tomatoes that are sprouting two or three in one pot instead of, you know, one each... hopefully the separated seedlings will all take and there will be lotsa tomatoes because that's all good. But at least now I've got at least one of each type I started! The squash, summer and winter alike, are big enough now to go in the ground whenever it's ready; I'm contemplating putting the winter squash under the lemon tree where it will have room to grow undisturbed, particularly since I noted today that the ferals had dug through the mulch in one spot and I'm guessing used that area as a litter box. :/ Maybe putting squash there would deter them. At least they're not interested in the pots of cat grass I start outdoors and give to the indoor kitties once it's tall enough.
It's amazing how destressing it can be to sort through the plants you've started from seed and see which are big enough to go where they need to go. In this case they're going to my mother... fourteen Ruby Queen corn plants, two Vanilla Ice melons, a Green Zebra tomato, a Black Krim tomato, four dill starts, and two each of borage, jalepenos, and chard. Plus putting a few more seeds in to sprout and separating out the itty bitty tomatoes that are sprouting two or three in one pot instead of, you know, one each... hopefully the separated seedlings will all take and there will be lotsa tomatoes because that's all good. But at least now I've got at least one of each type I started! The squash, summer and winter alike, are big enough now to go in the ground whenever it's ready; I'm contemplating putting the winter squash under the lemon tree where it will have room to grow undisturbed, particularly since I noted today that the ferals had dug through the mulch in one spot and I'm guessing used that area as a litter box. :/ Maybe putting squash there would deter them. At least they're not interested in the pots of cat grass I start outdoors and give to the indoor kitties once it's tall enough.
