Greenery

Spent the day in the garden. Weeded under the weed-proof paper (ha!) of one of the garden paths, and laid down a new doubled layer of fresh paper atop it. Weeded other places. Lots of them. Doesn't seem to've made a visual difference. Watered potted plants, and was pleased to discover that, as hoped, no, the apricot tree is not dead; it's merely been winter dormant and is starting to put forth new growth.

And moving the potted orange tree by the in-ground lemon tree for the duration of its blooming was probably a good idea, as I watched a hummingbird busily going about its business with the tree this morning....

Got about half my seeds started today, and the six-packs set in their trays for the half I'll start tomorrow. Hopefully we'll be able to sift out the finished compost tomorrow, and I can dig that into one of the beds that needs it.

Meantime, I need a shoulder rub.... *goes to hunt down Wonderful Husband*

*crunchcrunchcrunch*

Since we wanted to have tacos, and my four volunteer lettuce plants (Amish Deer Tongue) aren't big enough to provide the greens yet, I started a Mason jar of sprouts going earlier this week. Now, usually I do alfalfa sprouts, but I also had a package of radish seeds for sprouts, and I like the peppery bite, so I decided to do those instead. Now, with alfalfa sprouts, you cover the bottom of the jar 2-3 seeds deep. The instructions for the radish sprouts instruct to cover the bottom of the jar an inch or so deep.

I decided to err on the side of caution.

Damn good thing I did. The quart jar, minus what we used on the tacos, is packed full. Sandwich time~!