Well, this last week has been pretty quiet for gardening, especially since I was out of town for most of the weekend (took a nice trip down to the central coast to enjoy wine, sunshine, and the beach)!
My seedlings have continued to germinate and grow quite well. However, I need to rethink their lighting situation, as I have to move them daily so they don't bend too severely toward the light. I'm likely going to invest in a small shop light and install that this week, as I just have a clamp light now and it's definitely not giving everyone their fair share of light!
I did spend a couple hours out in the yard setting up dripline to the new bean trellis, moving the salad table and running drip to that, and planting a variety of carrots (Short N Sweet, Yaya Hybrid, and Kaleidoscope mix) and lettuce (Bibb, Buttercrunch, Paris White, and Salad Bowl). I only planted one row of each and will plant another row in a couple weeks so I avoid what happened last year where I had TONS of carrots and lettuce for a week or so, then they were all gone! I also spent some time putting some bird netting around the salad table, as the birds really enjoyed a lot of my lettuce seeds at the last planting, resulting in not much germination or growth.
While I intended to clean up the rest of the thatch in the front yard from last week, it just didn't happen today. I'll plan on doing that during the week sometime, running the rake over the lawn once more, and lay down some Weed n Feed (despite there being no lawn yet!) to tame any crabgrass (of which there's a fair bit).
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