My garden is 67% planted! Yeah! I ended up with six half barrels of my magic soil mix…. that includes some empty 2L bottles that I placed in the bottom of the barrels to take up space. It’s sort of like the bricks in the toilet tank… remember that, anyone?
I bought one plant, a cherry tomato, and Nora helped me plant it yesterday after the rains came down and the floods came up. But not a seed found its cozy bed until today… when sunny skies returned to Arizona, and winter is now over. My rainy day yesterday was spent indoors pouring over gardening books to figure out which plants need full sun, which plant grows with which companion plant, how many seeds to sow in each barrel for each type of plant, etc. etc. etc. Of course, I drew a plan. You gotta have a plan! If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time! (Sorry for all the clichés….. I’m a tad on the tired side.)
And the planting began…. green onions, bell peppers, carrots, spinach, cilantro…..
Yes, those green onion seeds are teeny and hard to plant. But not NEARLY as hard as the carrot seeds! I could barely see them, let alone try to pick up two at a time for each of the 96 little holes destined to cultivate Peter Rabbit’s favorite veggie! Those carrots will NOT be coming up in perfect rows like Mr. McGregor’s garden. I may have even missed an entire row…… anywho…. the proof will be in the pudding in about two weeks, when they come up and I see what really happened.
The reason I’m only at 67% is because I forgot to soak the peas and zucchini seeds before planting. They will go in tomorrow with the beans. More pictures to follow as the joyfulness in my heart grows with each little sprig of green that pushes up through the earth.
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