Got my poor little cabbages and broccoli into the veg today. Those seedlings came up way faster than I expected and developed into very (VERY) leggy plants. I coddled them along all thru the early spring and they've spent the past couple weeks out on the deck hardening off. I had hoped that they might "even out" a bit but no such luck. Never again do I start seeds in those tiny cells...I've got these terrific yellow plastic cups that R brought home from work years and years ago (they were used to hold bolts, screws, etc., then discarded) and I always get great results because they are big and deep. I have no idea why I did not use them this year, but I learned my lesson. Such scrawny pitiful little cabbages... At any rate, they're planted, watered in with some Miracle Gro and protected under a cage draped with garden fleece. Go with God, little cabbages....
That done, I popped into the woodland entry bed 3 primroses that I bought in March. They should do pretty well there...
Then, got the two pink spirea dug out of the steep hillside beside the deck and put into the Pine Gap. Difficult working on a steep slope, but thankfully spirea don't have big root root systems.
Then, since R had to take his car out of the garage and drive himself to the doctor's today, I went ahead and hauled out everything from the basement/garage that needs to come outside for the summer. (I'm not allowed to haul/drag/carry things past the precious station wagon in case I heaven forfend scratch it.) This totalled: One big rolled up rug (spread on driveway, vacuumed, then rolled back up for storage); one picnic table, one picnic table bench, one big heavy square ceramic planter, one big plastic box with my dahlia roots in it, two red-painted wrought iron sections from somebody's porch that I want to use as decorative accents to either side of the red painted veg garden gate; two picnic table legs that need to get attached to the picnic table top that's been sitting in the grape arbor all winter. Then I dragged out my fav. lawn mower and mowed the flat section of the lawn by the driveway and the two little lawns by the pond. Those little lawns are getting smaller every year and the southern one is almost solidly violets so I may just go ahead and remove the grass in it and let it be a "flower lawn." Less to mow!
OK, battery is low. (Both on the laptop and me!)
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