There’s just not a ton to do in the garden with everything so wet and more rain coming soon- but it’s dried out enough that I can take stock of what needs to be done after the next does of wet.
Honestly there are a few things I should be doing *this* weekend but it’s the home stretch of my last semester at University so it’s study time first and garden time last.
First the good news- all the Pac Choi are doing great. Which is as expected, cabbages in general are good growers this time of year, and they’ve all been watered well!
And here’s the other great news- the first of the romaine seedlings have begun to sprout!
The green onions and leeks haven’t sprouted yet but that’s to be expected, lettuce comes up much quicker than onions.
What’s also coming up is weeds! Weeds everywhere, though none as spectacular as the oxalis I pulled last week.
As far as work I have to do in the next few weeks, some of it is wait and see.
The cut back dill plant is very green in the middle, though the other fronds look all mealy and gross- so it will either bounce back by the new year, or it won’t.
I’ve just had terrible luck with dill, which is annoying because I use so much of it when I cook, it would be really nice to have a reliable plant in the back.
Oh boy did I let the mint thunderdome get kinda overgrown. So I’ve got to cut back all the tendrils and twigs and maybe give it a dose of fish emulsion when I give some to the dill.
Then it should be fine, as mint is an undying force.
I’ve been procrastinating on pulling my moldy heat damaged lettuces so there’s a chore for later.
I think I’ll put some snap peas in the top patch. Perfect winter pea, good snacking potential, and most importantly- really easy to grow.
Unlike fucking lettuce apparently
The sorrel is getting gigantic, definitely ready to harvest after the next dose of rain.
Now the (maybe) hatch peppers are interesting. The shishito plant will have to be cut back heavily if I’m to get any peppers next year. The red bell pepper plant is really infested. But the hatch pepper, while weird, is yummy. So I’ll cut it back after I harvest the last of them, but unlike the bells which are getting pulled- I’m gonna keep the hatches.
Whoooo December tomatoes! I have so many growing December tomatoes! I don’t know if they’ll ever ripen but… December tomatoes!
It’s also looking like in a few months I’m going to be overrun by carrots.
This is not a bad thing.
And as expected- the ishkabibble parsley plant has really perked up now that it’s in a pot. It is kinda being caressed by the lemongrass but it’s just going to have to get used to that, I have only so much room on the shade herb table.
Which reminds me of the maintenance I have to do on this site- my map of the garden is wildly out of date- so this week I’m definitely going to draw a new one and post it.
It’ll probably be out of date again within a month- oh well.
The Neanderthal Gardens 