Coming Alive
I've been working to get caught up in the garden, and I'm getting there. But I think there will always be something that should have been done yesterday. It's been feeling a lot more like work, and less like play for a while. But this morning I went out to work and ended up just spending time. I guess I haven't looked around to see how much things are growing, how many seeds have come up. It renewed my excitement.
In the cabbage patch things are thriving. The dill, thyme, parsley, radishes and carrots are coming up strong. The rosemary is coming along slowly, but I think I worry about it every year. And every year it does just fine.
The strawberries that I started from seed are beginning to blossom! I sowed some dill, sage, onion and radish seed in the strawberry bed. I anxious to see them come up!
I've harvested some radishes, and I'm letting a couple big beauties go to seed. I throw a handful of seed out every couple of weeks. Hopefully that'll give me a steady flow radishes for a while.
The cucumbers are doing well under the fence and morning glories are starting to peek out. The ashwaganda is growing fast and the wormwood has really bushed out.
Why Did the Turtle Cross the Road?
I've got no idea, but it's turtle crossing season for sure! I'll be late everywhere I go for the next few weeks, because I have to stop and move turtles every few miles. While I was looking for radishes to pull the other day, I found three. They don't stick around long, and I really don't mind them eating a little on their way through. But my dog loves them, so as soon as I see them I call my turtle relocator out to carry them away.
The ants are super busy out there. I sat for about 20 minutes and watched them carrying dirt and bits of this and that out of a hole next to my porch. You can see all the debris they were hauling out.
The Baker Creek Planting Festival
We were running a little late and got stuck in traffic. With every turn the line grew longer!
But it could've been worst. We could be back there!
It's always a good time. I didn't get a lot of pictures of the vendors, I got a few of the cool seed collection Baker Creek had on display.
I bumped into a couple Steemians, @dwells and @papapepper, while I was there.
I was trying to keep a look out for others, but I got distracted by all the plants!
Here's my haul.
I ended up with two new tomatoes, even though I don't really have room for them. A great white and an Ivan. Adam just couldn't resist adding a Carolina reaper and a black Hungarian to his pepper collection. We got horseradish, horehound, two goji berries, and @randomphandom grabbed a couple succulents and some Corsican mint.
In the huge seed store I picked out a beautiful echinacea, echinacea pallida, Attila strawberry, some tansy, Flemish antique poppies with edible seed, some mixed cactus seed for @randomphandom and some pink banana seed. I'll get more into some of the plants and seeds, and why I chose them in later posts.
