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My labels are hard to read in either view. Clockwise from top left they read:
- Butter lettuce
- Spinach
- Mesclun
- Nasturtium
- Red leaf lettuce
- Italian parsley and basil
- Sweet Treat carrots
- Marigolds
Crops that aren't very impressive yet include the red leaf lettuce, herbs, and Petite 'n Sweet carrots (to the left of the Sweet Treats). And then there are the sprouts where I don't believe I planted any.
Here my carrots (the spikey ones) and lettuce meet at a crossroad:
After shooting the above, I removed the grid. I can tell what's where now that everything is sprouting. Even did some weeding of sprouts in areas where I know I didn't plant anything, or where something I did plant is in something else's territory. The bed is crowded enough as it is, and I'm going to be doing a lot of thinning. Watered moderately from the hose.
Sprayed quite a number of dandelions. Across the street they've all gone to seed, but not on my side of the street. My yard will be producing few seeds if any. Mowed half the back.
Taking a break from dethatching and seeding the front. I want to see what grows in. I'm afraid I'm not seeding heavily enough, and might want to go over what I've done.
Yesterday a certain cat, whose identity is known to me, decided that the peat pods in which I'm starting bell peppers and eggplants were playthings. I woke to find them scattered about the floor of my screened porch. Two of the pods were completely demolished, but I scouted around and managed to find most of the seeds and the one or two sprouts, with associated peat. I've set them outdoors to limit feline access. Don't have a good sunny warm spot to start them indoors, but I won't be transplanting them until I've made space by eating some lettuce, which is weeks away. We'll see if I've saved them.
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