Stakes

Had to get out and dig this morning. Much watering, dug another hole in the front, same sort of layers, hard thick heavy clay, then river stones in a more sandy substrate. Not an easy job, but it's what is needed, and I enjoyed doing it, really.

Planted a nice little cayenne pepper, which tends to do very well in this area.

Doing what I can to reduce the lawn. Hopefully will have sunflowers before too long. Stones around are from the bottom of the hole.

Veronica from the community gardens plant sale in the other dig.

Tomatoes have stakes, and all the rest doing well, red beans inoculated and planted. Chives in.

Where I planted the lavender, nothing grew, but these, which I thought were some kind of weed. Decided to wait for them to declare themselves. Pulled one stray out, it had to be a weed, then, right? A bit of potato skin came up with the root. Oh, yeah, I'd put some sprouted potatoes out there a long time ago, thinking what the hell. Well, they grew.

I'm not being terribly scientific about any of this, really. Just doing a bunch of small amounts, seeing if any of it works. Data gathering, not even theorizing.

Swiss chard and green beans next week.

Last day of vacation. It's been absolutely wonderful for both of us.