Gardening in the High Desert
Seedlings that are up [sprouted] inside
Peat pellets
- 3 purple cone flower
- 1 white cone flower
- 1 vera tomato
- 2 cells curly parsley
- 2 cells tarragon just breaking ground
- 2 bee balm monarda
- 3 cells gama grass
- 3 tall vine tomatoes
- 1 dill bouquet
- 3 cells chamomile
- 2 Joe's Long Cayenne [pepper]
- 4 Shasta Daisy
Bedding Tray
- 4 Clumps garlic chives
- 9 Tam JalapeƱos (2 not doing so well)
- 3 culinary sage
- 6 pomadore [tomato] (1 not doing well)
- 5 flat leaf parsley
- 10 Salvia Blue Bedder
- 3 red pear [tomato]
Purple Basil Tray Almost ready to transplant
Tam JalapeƱo Flat (6) not germ yet
Outside Status
- Spinach in ground has germinated
- 1 pea has pushed san aside
- I covered rows with some ferny weed leafs - hopes that hides them until they are too big for the birds to care
- Garlic beds doing well
- Weeded - lots of ferny things - pulled ones closest to the individual garlics
- No weeding for daffs, but I did feed and water ones buy west fence and the volunteer daffs and crocus
- Old Biddy followed me around and scored a big, fat caterpillar. That's about 4 I've dug up so far this year
- Read certain butterflies like to lay their eggs on parsley, so I think I shall plant more parsley. And cilantro, too. Maybe a whole swath in my tinny "wildflower" garden
Watered
- Bed 2 and 3
- All Garlic
- Volunteer daffs
- Daff bed West
- Corn stubble - chickens have worked over the stubble - no over-wintered bugs there!
- Ferny weeds along the north and east corner - these will be the backdrop to wildflower are. I know some caterpillar eats them
- Watered and turned compost - not steaming, yet, but smelling more strongly of ammonia. Something is alive in there
- Ordered floating row covers. Hopefully they'll be here soon. I am ready to direct sow seeds.
Direct Sow Candidates
- White Sage
- Sunflowers
- Peas
- Spinach
- CA Poppies
- Salvia
- Turnips
- Rutagega
- Law Grass
- Morning Glories
- 4 O'Clocks
- Lettuce Mix
- Wild flower mix (in rows, so I know they aren't weeds)
- Malabar spinach
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