Dave was unable to resist the siren song of bedding plants, so we bought a four-pack of Russian (?) red kale, rosemary, cilantro, and dill. The herbs went into pots and the kale into the garden surrounded by mesclun seeds.
We also planted Indian popcorn which--did you know this? I did not--needs to be planted 4 inches deep or deeper. That seemed wrong ("modern" corn varieties apparently only need to be planted 1 inch deep), so we varied our planting from about 3-4 inches to 1 inch (all within a single hole, so we'll see).
On the patio, along with the herbs, we started some Thai eggplant seeds (which never germinated last year), purslane and, mixed in with the herbs, more salad mix and radishes.
At the bottom of the ziplock bag that serves as our seed storage, there is a mix of god knows what kinds of seeds. I'm tempted to just pour out all our little seeds (not just the mystery mix, but all the seeds) and make seed bombs. Maybe not this year, but next year any seeds that we don't plant this year gets turned into bombs.
Oh--and David was also unable to resist the online seed purveyors after all. We have Mexican sour gherkin cucumbers, Bora King radish, Zlata radish, Boro beet, golden beets, Nelson carrots, Naro Di Toscana (Black Palm) kale, super sugar snap peas.
Tl;dr--
Today we planted:
Garden: Kale and Indian popcorn
Patio: rosemary, cilantro, dill, radish, mesclun mix
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