Also, we plant things

[redbird]

I went to the nursery this morning, in search of cucumber plants, and wound up with a pot containing three little Diva cucumber seedlings, and another pot with a slightly larger Black Krim tomato plant. Black Krim isn't my favorite tomato, but I couldn't find Paul Robeson last year, and Black Krim is almost as good, in the same direction (though it doesn't get extra points for a cool name).

I planted the cucumbers this morning, in the small raised bed next to the driveway; I should get a cucumber trellis, but they will probably still wind up competing with the grapevine for space. cattitude did some more weeding in the front yard this afternoon, uncovering more slates in the process, and I planted the tomato in the just-weeded area near the second half-dozen lettuces I put in recently. I have no idea why someone put a slate path up the middle of the front yard (leading to nothing in particular), but I'm not surprised someone else piled topsoil on them. Pending landlady approval, the slates will be getting a new home across the street with 42itous.

I also put a few tiny purple basil seedlings in the planter with the green basil plants I bought and planted around the end of April. The idea of starting our own seeds was good, but it turned out that when the sprouts got large enough to be moved out of the mini-greenhouse and into pots, one or both of the cats was treating them as a fresh salad bar. (They're not allowed on the counters, but we're not always awake, or home, to enforce that.)

I have no idea what we're going to do with the rest of the garden space. Chance more cucumbers, or melon? More tomatoes? Root vegetables? I should probably sow clover seed in the meantime; we've got enough of it.

Comments

[umadoshi]

Black Krim is one of the varieties I'm hoping to find as an option at a different nursery before making final choices about which kinds to have--I think it sounds more up my husband's alley than the ones I already know I have access to (that are on my list of "ooh, that sounds promising!" varieties). I have my fingers crossed.

Paul Robeson isn't one I'd heard mentioned before, but I just read its listing on Totally Tomato, and it also sounds excellent.