My knees are still swollen and my back can't take anymore. I'm glad I will have several days where I won't need to kneel again. I've been taking those Kirkland Extra Strength Muscle and Back Pain Relieve (with Acetaminophin) and that has saved me along with slathering Tiger Balm on my lower back, knees and ankles.
It doesn't look much different than yesterday as I had the stakes up, but yesterday I had this idea because the soil looks like tiny pebbles that I would use potting soil. I add the vigoro shake and feed as I didn't want to put sphagnum, manure and other amendments in this year. This has kept, earthworm castings, feather & bone meal in it. so I mix that in the surrounding soil and then I put some potting soil down, then put the seeds in at the appropriate spacing and then put a bit more potting soil on top and tamped it down. I shouldn't mix up where the rows are at all as I have the strings and you can see a different coloured soil where the seeds are planted. I think this will help the seeds germinate faster - I don't know why I didn't think of this before.
So today I planted Beans (yellow and burgundy), swiss chard, spinach and lots of lettuce.
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| HUZZAH, it's all sown |
After all this was done I saw that my front lawn exploded with dandelion blooms after yesterday's mowing. So I sat there for 1.5 hours and took all those blooms and buds away. I don't want them going into seed and last year I spray at half strength. I would do that again, but you can't really do that just before it rains and it's supposed to rain the next few days. The pot below is a 12 inch pot and is pretty big and is about a 1/3 filled with the tops of dandelions except for a few full dandelions. On this photo you can see also my attempt at reproducing Zima tomatoes and my Costco Basil.
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| Dandelion tops, Zima tomato plants, Basil |
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