more mostly garden, 1 April - Easter

1 April
morning check showed scores of mustard and radish sprouts, and possibly minute green specks of lettuce
Dry south gale all day. Almond verbena dried out, also oregano from Meadors. Hopeful of recovery. Later -- all perked up aain
Calloways $44. 2 mints and Stevia, 6 tomatoes - 4 heirloom, plus celebrity and sweet 100. 3 assorted eggplant, 1 banana, 1 bell pepper. 4 portulaca, 2 bluebonnets, 2 alyssum.
Tilled space for mints, and 3’ of herb rock bed. Added a little manure, 1/3 bag mushroom compost, 40# “topsoil” and 2 cubic ft. “landscape mix.” Constructed first section, planted bluebonnet, 2 alyssums, 2 thymes.



All plums over except two small brier-buried ones in pasture by gate that just started. Maybe they’re pears; they are greenish-white.

Lots and lots of white violets, kind of buried in chickweed. Lots of stagnant water slowly draining - culvert is running but algae pools are backed up under the trees.

Tried to call Jeff Dowler again to cut tree - left another message.




2 April
light rain before dawn. Sounded like quite a lot on the tin roof, but actually very little in Buddy’s bucket.
Let the cats out at 9, with trepidation, then worked more on herb bed. Planted the other bluebonnet and the elfin thyme, one dill. Probably will put oregano in top spot. Basil in this bed or elsewhere? Need summer tarragon (Mex. mint marigold) and more parsley, and I guess a spearmint. Rosemary will go over a yard further, beyond iris, I think.

Need to see if workerguys can roll BIG rocks over from under plums. Put some just outside fence as outer side of rock bed, others as seats.

The heavens opened about 10:30, and I was able to get the cats in.
Brief but VERY heavy rain. Need to take loppers and shears down and clear more around cookstove in creek, take pics.
Winter honeysuckle is done blooming. New deep green leaves, only a few blossoms here and there. Not sure where bees are now -- seen a few on redbud. Getting pollen from oaks, maybe.
Calloways again, Brandywine and yellow plum, also tomatoes for Sycamore St and bluebonnets, lemon verbena and purple sage

3 April
cold (!) last night s 40s ;-) Littlest eggplant in pot looks sad. Planted 2 peppers 2 eggpl in rest of tomato row
Peas are up!
Got to Oxide in time to pioto neckpiece. Helped Mary brainstorm rearraonging.
Back after midnight, Agate must have slipped out as I came in dark kitchen door. Called and called, stayed up 2 mr hours, no Agate.

4 April Easter
Walked around calling 7am, Aggie appeared at end of garden perfectly happy. Let all out. Went to town to get tiller. When I came back all were willing to come in to breakfast.
Soft moist morning, 70°. Removed first section of rocks from eave bed by kitchen door. Will place them flat as a border further out.
Tilled space for yellow plum, Brandywine, and Fairy Tale eggplant, basil, parsley, dill, stevia by fence north of mimosa. Took out BIG rock.
Napped all afternoon w Alabaster.
At dusk, tilled eave bed, in the dark planted 4 mints.