Thumbs Stained Green

Every year I see bundles of bare-root strawberries at the gardening centers and think they're a good idea. And every year I learn again why they're not. Six plants out of thirty starts is not a successful ratio! I ended up buying more plants and putting them in the ground yesterday. So now my two patches of strawberries are planted, the potatoes have almost all come up and are looking ridiculously healthy, and the most of the questionable Walla Walla onion starts have started perking up.

Today, I'm hoping to get the parsley plants put in the herb bed, and then start amending the next bed down the line. Blood meal and bone meal and compost, oh my! If I'm particularly productive, I'll manage to get that done and plant the Yellow Pear tomatoes and jalepeno pepper plants I have waiting on the dining room table. And next weekend is the Fullerton Arboretum plant sale, for which I have a shopping list....