garden chores

Today it is sunny and ~ 75, no rain but the ground is very soggy.

Herbs

• planted them in the strawberry pot a few days ago, look good so far
• a few pockets have settled so I added some more soil

Potatoes

• these guys are growing like crazy!  I will need to hill them again soon.
• the white bucket stays very wet, need to keep my eye on it

Strawberries

• first red fruits were already eaten by pests :(
• need to build a secure structure for the anti-pest netting

Carrots

• the bucket always seems dry on top
• sprouts are filling the bucket but they seem so small still?  I wonder when I should thin the seedlings?
• the side planting is much bigger (of course they were planted several weeks earlier)

Bucket #2 (future squash)

• looks sunken in, i'm concerned about the self-watering setup collapsing
• so far I've planted several rounds of four seasons lettuce with no luck, not sure what the problem is

Bucket #3 (future squash)

• has settled a little but no where near as bad as #2
• good results with the heatwave lettuce :)

Peppers

• hot/sweet bananas look somewhat damaged from the frost but recovering
• 2 bells from Burpees look good but the 3rd one is amost dead :'(  -> need to look up the guarantee info

Beans/Cucs

• fire ants have moved into my raised bed :(
• several sprouts are up... made a huge seed planting a few days ago too

Garlic

• just found out I probably planted the garlic wrong.  I planted the whole bulb... it's growing though
• today, I gave up on the romaine lettuce and put the 2nd garlic clove, split up, in that spot

Onion/Shallots

• look to be growing well, but they are reaching for the sun.  I've rotated the bucket a few times to help.

Asparagus

• I had almost given up but two baby stalks were poking out of the soil today!

Spinach

• seem to be growing well from seed, but really slow
• still no edible harvest