LIFE AS SEEDLINGS

Aren't they cute? They are on their 14th chapter of Captain Underpants (in 1 sitting). What a cute way to spend lunchtime together.

After lunch yesterday, Simon Peter and I spent hours out in our garden. We removed leafy lettuce, put compost down, trimmed sucker branches, collected cherry toms, short-n-sweet carrots, bunching onions & sweet basil and then put in our 2 wk old seedlings.

(Our harvest on right - Top L Basil, Top R Carrots, Lettuce below cherry tomatoes and bunching onions on bottom.)

(Covered in green)

For basil, I took the nice leaves I wanted to keep. Blanched them 1 min in boiling water, then onto ice water. Dry and vacuum packed. Put into freezer until needed. I also have a great pesto from last harvest.

I still have my big plant, which thanked me for pulling so much off of it, as well as the plants behind it finally getting sun today. I would prefer the whole thing to die and my other cuttings to take off for another garden bed that I'm preparing for herbs. More to come with that.

New iceberg seedlings. I think we put approx 10 heads down, 8" apart.

Spinach in front (8?) and a dozen Yellow Onions in back. The onions ares surrounded by some slow growing cauliflower that I'm leaving in the ground for now. Onions were 4" apart and Spinach 6" apart.

By the finishing of this post, the boys are done with their book.

Robin