Slow Progress

Things are moving along slowly. I looked up some of the planting charts and many things I am at the very last chance of planting them. Some should have been in by the end of June or even midJune so I am pushing it. It is coming to a point now of doing fall crops.

I spent last Tues starting some seeds for beans, squash, peas, kholrabi and some other things that can be fall crops. It is late but I am trying again on the cucumber seeds. I lost the packet of new ones so I drug out some seeds from previous years. The transplants look awful except for one healthy looking plant. Only two of the cherry tomato plants survived but they are looking very good.

Most of my squash and pumpkin seeds said I could get away with planting last week and possibly make it so I am trying a few old seeds in the starter flat. I also found that my melons only need 60 days so I went ahead and planted the cannonball watermelons and mini canteloupes.

I thought I would get some more done but the area around the garden was getting overgrown and I tried to weedeat a bit Wed. It pretty much did me in and I haven't been able to do anything since. My ankle and heel are still in terrible pain so I can't do much walking right now.

I noticed a bad sign this evening. Everytime I thought it was getting dry enough for me to water, we have had rain. This is good because I didn't have to fight with dragging buckets of water over to the plants. However this is bad because I have not added any nutrients to the plants for almost 4 weeks. Plants in pots need nutrients every 7 - 14 days. When I glanced over at the garden area this evening my large tomato plants and the Roma tomato plants look like they are suddenly going a bit yellow so I better tend to them tomorrow and give everything a good dose of plant food.

The seeds I got from the give away did not have any markings as to type, i.e. beans just said beans, not the type of beans or whether they were pole or bush. They gave me large bags of them and I couldn't use that much so I just grabbed small amounts of each and gave the rest to the pastor's son. Sunday the pastor brought me a bag filled with small yellow crookneck and straight neck squash. He said that is what is coming up from the squash seeds.