March 27-There was more rain overnight. Not much. Before I left for home I watered the lettuce bed.
More newly germinated plants take a bus ride. The count in the greenhouse is slowly growing larger. The earliest Cherokee Purple tomato plants are probably a couple weeks away from being transplanted. It all depends on the weather. There always remains a chance of a light frost.
Two new additions to the greenhouse -- two Green Globe artichoke plants that got their start on a window sill at the glass shop. They like indirect light at first. The girls know nothing about artichoke plants. All three are pretty much very Southern and aren't very much interested in things that aren't Southern -- like California.
I am approaching the end of the raised bed where I'm setting out lettuce plants. I've interspersed some rows with spinach seed which I hope will germinate. In between the lettuce rows I've been sowing radish, parsnip, beet and carrot pellets. All are from last season. All I can do is hope these seeds are still viable.
I completed watermelon hill #6 and almost finished clearing out #7. Although it's an ordeal, I started in on hacking up dirt for another 6ft timber.
Tomorrow's big task is tilling the raised bed closest to the slope where I plan to set out pepper plants in late April/early May and sow zucchini squash seed. And cukes, I hope.
Ali says he wants sweet Basil and purple Basil. I hope Lowe's carries the purple variety. It's time to start them for transplanting after the soil warms. Basil plants like warmed soil.
Old Cadillacs never die. The finance company take 'em and faaaaade 'em away.
