Rainy Sunday - May 18, 2025

It's an intermittently drizzly day.  According to my weather app, we're between two big clouds; the top of one is upon us, and the tail of the other might catch us later in the day.  The bottom of the second one looks like it means business, so we may get a storm, which will utterly piss me off, for I planned to work in the vegetable garden today.

Most years, I would just be starting the garden, but I got an early start this year and planted tomatoes, onions, broccoli, and anasazi beans in March.  There was one night in March when I worried that frost might kill the tomatoes, but it didn't frost, and now they're bearing fruit.  The 4-year-old Great Nephew (at whose request I planted the broccoli) has already nibbled on a small head of broccoli.  Onions are doing fine (I planted more yesterday).  In March, I planted a row of anasazi beans, but fewer than 10 plants came up.  Thinking maybe they simply did not appreciate March temperatures, I re-planted part of the row yesterday; maybe they're sprout since it's warm and they're getting a little moisture today. 

I planted 4 hills of crookneck squash in March, intending to plant more later.  This morning, I found an open pack of butternut squash seeds in the seed store bag that the onions came in, and I fear that I planted butternut squash instead of yellow squash.  It's a good thing I left room for more squash.

We've been using cardboard and mulch for weed control between the rows, but we don't have enough of either to fully cover the ground, and weeds have sprung up.  Fire ants have built a mound near one of the tomato plants.  Yesterday, I weeded and tilled and ant-baited for several hours, and I'm feeling it today.

Just as I was leaving the garden late yesterday afternoon, The Husband showed up to re-till the rest of the garden, which had grown up with weeds since the original March ground-breaking.  The soil was perfect for planting purple hull peas, but I was pooped and decided to plant them today.  And now the garden is probably too wet.  If I weren't so lazy, I'd walk down there to check it.  There might be time to plant the peas before the next round hits.

But I'm pretty lazy today, so . . . . 

I may work on The Granddaughter's quilt today.  I abandoned the binding work when my niece asked me to make the thank-you cards.  Time to get back to it.