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I have planted the tomatoes and peppers. FINALLY. I threw in a couple of clumps of basil and called it a day. The watering is set up, everybody has a chunk of animal protein below the roots, they're ready to go.
I still have to sow beans, squash, and cucumbers (my attempt at cucumber seedlings for transplant failed utterly this year), and fill in a few holes in the sweet potato bed, then I'll consider the garden planted. It's smaller this year, but that's good -- even with a couple of transplanted volunteer tomatoes (KBX and Joyce's Brandywine) I have six fallow beds. Maybe it will make harvesting a little easier -- if this year is better than last, and it can hardly fail to be, I'll still get a decent haul.
My heart isn't in it this year, for some reason. It seems to be echoed by the seedlings, none of which actually took off... I was transplanting tomatoes that were three inches tall, not the twelve inches they should be by now. The peppers were dinky, and the cukes never got started. (I blame the potting mix -- it was a couple of hand-me-down bags.) They should do all right now that they're settled in, but I'm three weeks late now and just not feeling it. I have to grit my teeth and clear the squash and bean beds.
Maybe I lost my momentum while stressing about weed control this spring. With luck, I can grind the grassy weeds under my heel this year and I just won't have to deal with them at all next year. Oh, we'll have alliums and remnants of other invasives to stamp out, but I won't have to spend all my time and energy mowing vast areas of foxtails. Add that to (hopefully) a much easier gardening season this year, and perhaps that will renew my enthusiasm.
I still have to sow beans, squash, and cucumbers (my attempt at cucumber seedlings for transplant failed utterly this year), and fill in a few holes in the sweet potato bed, then I'll consider the garden planted. It's smaller this year, but that's good -- even with a couple of transplanted volunteer tomatoes (KBX and Joyce's Brandywine) I have six fallow beds. Maybe it will make harvesting a little easier -- if this year is better than last, and it can hardly fail to be, I'll still get a decent haul.
My heart isn't in it this year, for some reason. It seems to be echoed by the seedlings, none of which actually took off... I was transplanting tomatoes that were three inches tall, not the twelve inches they should be by now. The peppers were dinky, and the cukes never got started. (I blame the potting mix -- it was a couple of hand-me-down bags.) They should do all right now that they're settled in, but I'm three weeks late now and just not feeling it. I have to grit my teeth and clear the squash and bean beds.
Maybe I lost my momentum while stressing about weed control this spring. With luck, I can grind the grassy weeds under my heel this year and I just won't have to deal with them at all next year. Oh, we'll have alliums and remnants of other invasives to stamp out, but I won't have to spend all my time and energy mowing vast areas of foxtails. Add that to (hopefully) a much easier gardening season this year, and perhaps that will renew my enthusiasm.
