Being a cat means definitely knowing where the very best sleeping spots are. I had to sleep in my chair Tuesday night and used the new blanket from the estate sale. Well! Larry decided that was the best thing ever, and spent most of the day sleeping on the wad.
I wasn’t doing so good, so I stayed inside and cleaned up the kitchen, made breakfast and got a shower, and started prepping for the seed starting. I had 1 tray to wash, and 13 covers.
Then I started selecting seeds and making markers. I completely forgot to fill out the seed starting charts as I went, even though I had pulled out all the ones we needed. So I had to go back and do that.
The brainfog has been particularly bad over the last few months. I’d counted, twice, how many spots were open for trays. And it looked like I would be one short. I thought we needed 12, it turns out we only needed 10.
And there were at least 6 extras when we finished. Sigh…
Thank goodness my general helper arrived at noon and kept me sorted out. We finished about 2:30PM and then started cleaning up. She started watering all the trays, even the ones already up and in the cold frame. I wiped down surfaces and then ran the vacuum.
I also adjusted lights for all the windows.
There were, as usual, SNAFUs. I found more flower seeds that hadn’t been ordered, and we ran short of some others. So we’ll have to go to the store for those.
I also checked the trays that weren’t up yet for things to restart and there were several. Because of the rearranging due to making stock on the porch, things ended up in all kinds of places, not where they belonged. At some point, I’m going to have to try to get like things together so I can find them when I plant.
The last thing I had wanted to do if we finished early was to dig up the feverfew in the New North garden and transplant it to Row 1, in the New Herb garden. So we got 3 of the big ones out of the New North plus my helper dug up 4 more for herself.
I will leave some there, but there’s still a whole lot left. I think I will offer them on BuyNothing. We had to pull up a lot of Roman wormwood that had spread into the walkway and feverfew bed.
My helper took the Roman wormwood home to dry for her chickens. She also got some seedheads from the feverfew.
This is what I started on the 5th seed starting:
Vegetables:
Brussels sprouts 6
Melons 6
Mesclun 14
Bell peppers 6
Kapija peppers 6
Hungarian paprika 6
Tomatoes, eating 6
Tomatoes, paste 6
Herbs:
Borage 6
Fenugreek 9
Salad Burnet 6
Yellow toothache plant 9
Flowers:
Alyssum 12
Lobelia 6
Marigolds 24
Portulaca 9
Zinnias 15
Restarts, others:
Agrimony (from stratify) 9
Sweet Cecily (from stratify) 6
Feverfew 6
Sweet Annie 6
Pennyroyal (restart) 6
Totals:
Vegetables 8
Herbs 9
Flowers 6
Total started: 188
I still need to get cosmos and zinnia seed and start those, plus we are low on mesclun seed.
My son finally got the 2 bags of firewood stacked, so my brother brought up another bag for him to empty by Friday. That will mean half the firewood is in the shed, for the woodstove.
On Thursday I need to finish the back 40 for picking up wood. In the afternoon my brother plans to start cutting trees back in the pastures with Tom’s attachment. I will have to help him do that by driving the truck. We aren’t going to pick up the stuff, just get it all cut.
You’re really going harder with your garden works
Keep it up!
Round 5 of seed starting, whoot whoot! You are getting close to major planting time. I planted out my paste and cherry tomatoes yesterday. Early I know, but the weather is steady and nice for the next 10 days. Yay!
The cat doesn't care how busy you are. eheheh @goldenoakfarm God bless your plants.
I like Larry's choice of a spot, and he beat you to it.
Planting season is always a very busy time, and you are keeping up with it.
Haha 😀. Guess who is relaxing on the couch ? Mr cat, I love your cat so much very homely.
I can see you're preparing for the sowing period. Good job!
#hive #posh
I love how you are taking your garden work very seriously.... Best of luck in your planting