Author: larksparrow

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Baby basil and mature greens

Lettuce, spinach, and corn salad greens for salad. Thinned the window basil and used that on pizza.

Dinner
We noticed water welling up from the cut basil stems after dinner. Thank you to Wes for the photo.
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Funnel-lily on weekend expedition

Hiking with Paula and Briar today. We saw several cool early spring plants, as well as first of season for us on Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and Black-and-white Warbler.

Thanks to Mom for identification of carrot-leaf lomatium!
A common spring favorite! Fringed puccoon!
As we were about to leave, I saw a little hill that looked like it might have interesting lichen rocks or something else good there. Sure enough!! Paula found blue funnel-lilies! Two plants. The other had two buds.
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These daffodils better be good

When putting in edging yesterday, we dug up and divided a cluster of non blooming daffodils. From reading the daffodil people’s website, either they hate me or need more sun. It took two hours to get them all in.

It took a long time also because i needed to fill in the dirt along the edging more tidily. You can see the clumpy spot on the sunny side in the middle. I didn’t want to step on the daffodils later, so that needed to happen first.
All the daffodils in place between each Salvia and all the front edging with tidier fill.
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Corten weathering steel garden edging!

Wow! What a day of work! Many thanks to Wes and Paula we now have a lovely edge to the vegetable garden.

Briar is not impressed, mainly because she had to stay inside while welding happened. She only got to help us at the end, once the welding was done.
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Earwig prevention attempt again

I saw that the new bok choy and mizuna seeds are coming up so I tried all this diatomaceous earth again. I also put vaseline around stems of one each mizuna and bok choy as I read that can keep them from climbing too, though the seedlings are only barely 1/2″ tall so we’ll see.

All the white dust is diatomaceous earth.
Since the earwigs are desperate enough to eat onions I dusted the onions too.