Community garden check - broccoli and cabbage seeds - September 4, 2024

Last night, I nearly mortified myself at the Dollar General up the road.

Only the best people shop there.  

The Husband and I had gone in for paper towels and toilet paper and such.  The guy at the cash register was new and a little bit slow and deliberate in waiting on customers.  Before our purchase was rung up, a line had formed behind us.  

We got our stuff and proceeded out the sliding doors, both sets of which were open to the cool night air. While The Husband put the buggy up, I went on ahead.  Just as I stepped through the second set of doors and onto the sidewalk, I coughed and simultaneously let the biggest, longest, loudest fart you ever heard.  

I'm surprised somebody in line didn't holler, "Damn, girl...come back and get you some AlkaSeltzer, or somethin'!."

The Husband was right behind me.  I wish I'd said, loudly, and with indignation, "HONEYYYY!  Good grief!"

Maybe he got the credit, anyway, since he was behind me.  

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I checked on the community garden plots early this morning.  They're coming along nicely.

Here's the pea patch, planted one month ago.  

That big old watermelon is from a volunteer plant that came up with the first pea crop.  At the opposite corner, near the orange water hose, are two or three other volunteer vines - maybe some type of squash, some type of melon, and a probable cucumber.  They are beginning to fruit.  One of the vines is making green, striped, crookneck-shaped fruit.  This might be one of mother nature's hybrids.  Or a gourd.  <shrug>  

Here's the squash patch, planted one day after the peas:

The squash plants are coming along nicely, about to bloom.  I found a few squash bug eggs on the leaves and one actual squash bug, all of which I smashed.

But just look at the surrounding plots, thick with nutsedge, pigweed, and grass.  Some of the plots never were planted; others were planted but not tended.  I have been weeding the plot directly behind the pea patch, trying to keep seeds out of my plot.  Next season, I would like to have a new neighbor in that plot!

When I came home from the community garden, I transplanted some cabbage seedlings into bigger pots.  Only 8 of about 18 seeds sprouted, but they are looking healthy, so far.  Hopefully, I did not kill them when I peeled off their cardboard starter pots.  Since I had a few more empty pots, I planted a couple more cabbage seeds and some broccoli seeds.