Ay yi yi!

Ay yi yi!

Sunday was a long gardening day.


In the garden 
We planted: A Brandywine tomato (finally found one, the very last one at Plants of the Southwest), more mixed and micro greens, more radishes, collard greens (wishful thinking), salad burnet, borage, and perennial arugula. Dave also found a little mushroom growing in the far corner near the mesclun lettuce mix.

Also: Goddamned cabbage moth eggs are hatching on the broccoli and kale. I picked half a dozen caterpillars off a single broccoli plant (and knocked off dozens of eggs). Some of the caterpillars were still tiny inchworm looking things, some were much larger, and there was already one pupating. Tomorrow I'll start drowning them in soapy water, but today we just threw all of them over the fence into the neighbor's yard. (Karmic payback for the time he kept the damn lamb in the side yard nearest our window and let it bleat for hours in the early morning before coming out to feed it.)

I hate having to deal with garden pests because they seem so blameless in the greater scheme of things. I'm not looking forward to the tomato hornworm days.


News from the Patio

On the patio: We planted very other plant in the world. No, not true. Only borage, bronze fennel, dill, oregano, purple basil, tumeric, ginger, yellow strawberries, grasses for the cats to eat along with some new catnip and lemon cat mint.  That's just most of the edible stuff. We also planted coleus for around the altar.