A Gardener's Diary

[Monksdream]

April 22--Not a cloud. High near 80. Some wind, from the south. I put in some herb plants -- a sage, a parsley, and five pepper plants. I'm out of fertilizer so it's back to Walmart tomorrow morning.

Also tomorrow I will put out Carolina Reaper plants. I'm thinking nine in a bed a made from the 6 foot timers. Ali asked me if I had any Scorpion peppers. Why didn't he say something last year?

The bee man still hasn't shown up.

I've planted 11 plots of Valentine sunflowers. I planted groups of 3 about 6 inches apart. I will thin them out if all germinate. I will have to take a image of the flower boxes where I've planted zinnia seeds and one of Black Eyed Susan. I also scattered a couple packets of wildflower seed then covered them lightly.

More Oasis turnip seed has germinated. That makes two of five rows.

I'm still up potting herbs. This is a Cinnamon Basil seedling. It looks like two but this variety shows an unusual characteristic of putting out a pair of main leaves.