the kai life

Miracle of all miracles!

A sunny spring Saturday with not much to do! Outside we go!

While I did go in to work this morning, I was done by 10:30 AM. Ken was still resting when I left at 7:45 AM and I think he might have still been in bed when I called. Lucky. We had brunch before we got into our various outside activities.

My plan for the day:

• amend the soil in prep for May planting
• Pot up some of the sad guys (lavender and rosemary were looking dreadful), and the plants that never made it out of nursery pots last fall
• clear out weeds and volunteer violas (and kale, and collards, and borage, and so on) from the mulch
• Put the Earth boxes I got at the end of the summer together

What I did (lol)

• Amended soil for my tomato and melon beds (trying a new compost – I usually use cedar grove but I got one too many bags of mud for my liking), covered them with tarp in hopes of warming the soil. (Is that a thing? I hope it’s a thing.)
• Cleared the renegade kale *next* to the greens bed (lots of aphids – growing in mulch probably makes for weaker plants)
• Cleared the excess violas and borage and moss and teeeeny self seeded greens from my chaotic brassica bed
• Repotted and separated out rosemary, repotted lavender, some mystery plants (what did I buy??), potted up my wee little Meyer lemon plant
• Stood in front of my natives bed for a while wondering why my lupine didn’t come back
• Started to use up the collected water in various pots, then read that the greenish brown dirt water should have just been tossed – good thing I only used it on my pollinator plants!
• Started, then stopped counting bugs

I’m always impressed by the sheer amount of biodiversity in the garden. Worms! Ants! Beetles! Centipedes! And so. many. spiders. I counted at least 6 different kinds.

All told, I’m feeling pretty good about today!

For tomorrow:

• Amend pea bed and sow peas
• Start seeds (sunflowers, last years melons, flowers and such)
• Set up earth boxes (for real!)
• Clear out Random Pile Of Mulch and Pots. (How do we wind up with so many pots?)