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torquillWell, whatever was going on last night, it sorted itself out as I slept. I feel very good. Even my finger doesn't hurt much.
I filled the raised sweet potato bed (had you wondered how I bashed my finger with a 60-pound rock? That's what I built the sides from) with the bags of leaves that I couldn't use for mulch because rain had gotten into them; they're in various stages of decomposition, and look very rich. The next step is to figure out how I can get some brewer's mash from Morgan, as the combo of mash and leaves made the sweet potatoes so happy last year that they bloomed profusely. I then buried the last three sad specimens from last year out in the damp warm leaves to start sprouting in earnest.
I clipped the broccoli. I was a few days late, as the heads are a bit loose, but it should taste fine.
There are still kumquats on my little bush, and the heat seems to have made them sweeter. Mmmmmm.
I really should find out how early Concord Feed opens, so that I can go get the alfalfa pellets I need for all these holes I've been digging. I looked at the broccoli, which in past years has done so poorly and this time buried us in 7-8" heads; the ones on the end where I had laid down a thorough layer of alfalfa under them had leaves bigger than I can span with my hand, while the ones on the other end, where I was more lax about amending, were their usual puny selves. Other gardeners don't understand when I tell them that I need "drastic measures" to get enough nitrogen to grow anything.
Cherry Buckskin training is at 10, so it's time to take care of any errands I need to do before that...
I filled the raised sweet potato bed (had you wondered how I bashed my finger with a 60-pound rock? That's what I built the sides from) with the bags of leaves that I couldn't use for mulch because rain had gotten into them; they're in various stages of decomposition, and look very rich. The next step is to figure out how I can get some brewer's mash from Morgan, as the combo of mash and leaves made the sweet potatoes so happy last year that they bloomed profusely. I then buried the last three sad specimens from last year out in the damp warm leaves to start sprouting in earnest.
I clipped the broccoli. I was a few days late, as the heads are a bit loose, but it should taste fine.
There are still kumquats on my little bush, and the heat seems to have made them sweeter. Mmmmmm.
I really should find out how early Concord Feed opens, so that I can go get the alfalfa pellets I need for all these holes I've been digging. I looked at the broccoli, which in past years has done so poorly and this time buried us in 7-8" heads; the ones on the end where I had laid down a thorough layer of alfalfa under them had leaves bigger than I can span with my hand, while the ones on the other end, where I was more lax about amending, were their usual puny selves. Other gardeners don't understand when I tell them that I need "drastic measures" to get enough nitrogen to grow anything.
Cherry Buckskin training is at 10, so it's time to take care of any errands I need to do before that...
