I harvested the first round of sweet peas, by the time they are done that corn stalk will be really tall and the cucumber in front will start to take over and have cucumbers. I read that you can grow corn and let the sweet peas use it as a trellis, but it seemed to me that means you have to plant the corn too early.
The broccoli is getting big and some of the lettuce is about ready. Around the broccoli is some of those heirloom carrots, which are supposed to be colors besides orange, that Sarah gave me. I pulled up one of them too early (I need to learn some patience with seeds and underground vegetables) and it was two inches long and purple. Sarah said her broccoli got buggy and she pulled it up, and I figure the cauliflower may have the same problem, but they sure look good now.
In front of the bare spot in the vegetable planter are two cauliflower, I will probably lose one that broke at the base of the stem, I blame Cruiser and I think he laid down on it. Besides the attraction of that nice warm dirt, the cats like to play with earthworms, which are abundant in this planter. The bare spot is where I planted peas that did not come up. Behind the broccoli are bush beans that are a few inches high and in the middle are a row of another carrot, which for a long time I thought might be a weed. So far I have had no luck with peas, parsley, and dill seeds and just planted my second try with these. Now that the first round of carrots and lettuce are close to ready, I also planted another round of these.
Can you find the blueberry turning blue?
Now I can really tell how many raspberries I can look forward to,
Half of the herbs are on the windowsill and half are outside. I had good luck with the oregano and now have an overabundance in three pots even though I already harvested some for tomato sauce. The other pots have sage and the basil and thyme are outside. If the dill and the parsley ever come up, I will do some pot rearranging, since the idea of the little pots was that I could keep a variety of herbs indoors for winter. I do not need three pots of oregano.
Sarah gave me a cherry tomato seedling that sprouted from her prolific cherry tomato and I put it in a pot and set it with the herbs outside. Most other vegetables do not like tomatoes. The seedling just sat there the same for a few weeks and just in the last week decided to grow, making me think that you can start plants indoors, but they will not grow until the time in the season that they should.
I am finally recovered from the week of crazy weather and the power outage. I'm guessing that the wide barometer swings were too much for me because I had a week of headaches, sick to my stomach, dizziness, and no energy. Summer officially starts next week, but here it looks like it starts this weekend and we just had a week of perfect warm, clear weather.
My sixteen weeks of training for my new job starts Monday. I sat in my old job last week and wondered how I endured that kind of boredom for a year and hoped the boredom did not kill off too many brain cells. I moved my handful of stuff into my new office with a door. No more spinning top every day! I will miss Alyssa. I really did enjoy seeing her every morning and appreciated how well she understood that I need to ease into my workday.
I understand the sixteen weeks of training is intense and Monday we start with medical terminology. As someone who never liked science class and has not taken a science class since high school, I am intimidated. I'm trying to remind myself that it has only been a few years since I earned my Master's degree and I must still be capable of learning something completely new, but I have some new memory and concentration issues that I blame on menopause.
This weekend I am resting my brain and arming myself with brain food, like dark chocolate and blueberries and salmon. A guy at work wants a mural in his laundromat, so I also need to do some sketches for him. He wants one thing, his wife wants another, poor guy looks harried over it. I told him I would do sketches for a few ideas and they could both look at them and decide, maybe he can sell his idea better with a visual example. I'm not sure if doing a mural during intense training will be too much or a welcome relief.
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