I always thought these were silly. Until now. I planted 9 different herbs and 5 sprouted. Which 5? I can recognize sage and basil, even though they are still very small, but what are the other 3? Which 4 did not come up? I have no idea. The rehab peas came up and I planted more seeds with them, cucumber, cauliflower, broccoli, and peppers. The peas grew fast, but only one of the four new seeds sprouted. Which one? Might be the broccoli, but what if it's not? Then I plant one of the others and end up with a ton of what? Someone at work suggested that without labels, my seeds were free, free to be what they want. No burdening that little carrot seed with a preconceived idea of what it should grow up to be.
It has been cooler all week and tonight it might get down to freezing, but I planted all my seedlings and more seeds anyway. I went to the Farmer's Market this morning and bought seedlings for some things I don't think came up from seed, cucumber and peppers. The herbs are now in separate pots and set in the herb/ammo box. I already planted some peas in the other ammo box and today I added the cucumber. Peas and cucumbers are friends. I planted the carrot seedlings and the one lettuce seedling that came up and more lettuce seeds in the new planter. I added the two new peppers, one that starts green and turns yellow, and one that starts green and turns orange. Then I added the three rehabed peas, the seedling that I think might be broccoli, and some cauliflower seeds,
That is the cat screen over the planter. I looked for chicken wire, but the bamboo fencing seemed more versatile. It opens and closes like an accordion and I can use it as fencing or a trellis when it's done being a cat deterrent. I also have some burlap, I could cover the planter with burlap if I thought it would really freeze tonight. I'm not that worried if it does freeze, I have plenty of seeds.
In the foreground are the strawberries that I kept over winter in the ammo box and transplanted a month ago. They already are twice as big as they were last year and are full of flowers. Everyone complains here about last year's strawberries, everyone grew small fruit that they left for the birds, but this year looks to be much better.
Sarah said she had trouble with aphids and her broccoli and that I may have the same issue with cauliflower or Brussels sprouts. Oh well, my vegetable garden is just a big experiment right now anyway. So far I am not impressed by carrots. The seedlings are these whispy, frail things and a bit of work for not that much.
Sarah and Joe had there Kentucky Derby party this afternoon and I went over to eat and watch the race. Idaho had a horse in the race called Rousing Sermon from Tree Top Ranches. Tree Top Ranches is in Parma, west of Boise near the Oregon border. My boss lives in Parma. It takes her an hour to get to work, that is if there are no horses running around on the freeway. That is a long commute for Idaho.
A woman at work has a 15 year old granddaughter that went missing Tuesday afternoon. By Thursday morning the granddaughter's picture was all over the news as missing. By Thursday afternoon they found her, or someone turned her in, and the police escorted her from the friend's house where she was staying back to her parent's house. Amazing how quickly big worry turns into big trouble. Turns out ever woman that I talked to Thursday afternoon ran away from home at 15, like some kind of right of passage. I never ran away from home. I feel like I missed something.
My painting for the IWS show in a few weeks is already framed. I went looking for it to take it to the framer and there it was hanging on the wall in its frame. I would say I am getting dippy in my old age, but I think I was always dippy.
I was going to take some pictures of my 50 year old self with my new blonder hair, but the sun keeps going in and out of behind the clouds. I will add them tomorrow if the sun stays out.
Started two more studies. Nothing else to do right now but paint.
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