I'm going to guess the NM is for New Mexico....
Or maybe it's New Madrid, Missouri....

My back wouldn't let me do more than 2 hours, dagnabbit.

I finished moving the ditch lilies.
Also moved my Kwanso since someone told me it's derived from the ditchlilies.
Moved more buttercups but not done yet.
took the 2nd 4x4 compost pile apart - to be dug out and refilled later.....
Didn't get to the front yard at all.
Maybe I'll do that tomorrow, it's a sit down and weed chore, not a bend and lift one.

After I posted, I realized I'm on the VEG thread.....
Nothing happening there except my rhubarb has a coupla leaves now.
I'm starting to worry about my asparagus. I had it in pots, to be planted in the veg bed after I got it made this spring. No spears showing yet but maybe it just needs a week.
Seedlings are under a light in the basement, awaiting transplant.
They go out with me when I go, then come in when I come in.

Heck, no problem. You did lots of garden work and should be rewarded.

I am tired, I cleaned up one tomato bed and then took the dog for a nice long walk. Enough for today.

I started a thread on the Perennials forum: "What did YOU do outside today?"
I basically just copied what I posted here. COME ON OVER!
The thread "What did YOU do outside today?" in Perennials forum

Critter, Garden Island has only one Lot above water. Most of the vegetation you see is mangroves but in the middle you can see the terrestrial with eucalypts. It sold for over 1.5 million to the Japanese 10 years ago.

I would love to land there. In fact, it is now on my to do list.

They say Cyclone Ita on Monday and Tuesday will be:

"transitioning to a vigorous extra-tropical system".

Love the words.

First lettuce of the year

Oh my. That looks great. And here my lettuce is not even planted as yet.

Cyclone Ita still following the coast. No lives lost so far. Most areas it crosses are getting up to 10 inches. Flash flooding is the major threat at the moment. Raining for several hours here.

I wondered what that "spot" was in the middle of Garden Island. And why it seemed uninhabited.

Congratulations on "transitioning to a vigorous extra-tropical system"!!
Got sandbags?

abhege said:First lettuce of the year

So lovely to see that, Arlene! I've just planted tomato, 'Giant Marconi' sweet pepper, flat-leaf parsley, pineapple sage and more chocolate mint. In the raised planter and other containers on the deck. Only thing in the ground is walking onions, garlic, and Jerusalem artichokes.

I'm hungry ... off to breakfast.

Gleni said:Cyclone Ita still following the coast. No lives lost so far. Most areas it crosses are getting up to 10 inches. Flash flooding is the major threat at the moment. Raining for several hours here.

Hope everyone stays safe!

Dressing up the will be tomato beds for spring.

Spring garden finally catching up. Pea patch doing well.
Beets have difficulty getting a good stand, but are growing. Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli are getting underway. Potatoes a foot high. lettuce, onions, pak choi, radishes and spinach doing exceptionaly well at the moment. The Red Kitten spinach is really looking good.
Start planting for early summer crops, corn, beans, eggplants, peppers this week.

Very nice, farmerd. I don't think I've ever had Red Kitten spinach.

farmerdill, fabulous garden you have each year. I am envious.

I put my source of humic acid which is Leonardate (spelling?) shale on all my tomato beds today. It is a course ground powder and you sprinkle it on the way one might your granular fertilizer. I do this each spring. Should have been done earlier but I was finially ready to do it now, having fixed up my tomato beds in the past few days.

I also unpacked my Texas tomato cages, all six of them, and put them up to be ready for plants.

Rita, I have seen your photos. What you accomplish in the space that you have puts me to shame. Transplanted Red Defender, Amelia, Mountain merit past week. Trial variety is Grandma's Pick this year. Had germination problems, vendor replaced seeds with a different lot. Have plants up now but about two weeks from transplanting. I rotate tomatoes with corn, so tomatoes get no fertilizer at all.

Yep, she's a dynamo in my book.

Oh Sucks guys! You are making me blush. It is just that I really love to garden. And I love to grow veggies, especially tomatoes.