So here is the deal: the garden doesn't look so good right now. My second round of plantings were put in by me with out adding any compost or fertilizer and the results are sad and mildly pathetic. I have always been bad about feeding the dirt. I want things to grow simply by tossing seeds in the general direction of the soil. This does not work. I intellectually know this. But my lazy bone takes over. So, the tomatoes suck. The zukes are dying. The basil and peppers are an advertisement for how not to garden.
I have purchased some Tiger Bloom and have been watering with it, but I fear it is too late. I have the impulse to chuck all the current plantings, dig in some store-bought compost and start again.
Meanwhile, Geoff is here and the pergola is done; the coop started. I have high hopes we'll finish the coop this weekend. The the staircase needs to go in, then I can get chicks. I mean poultry.
Below are some photos of the finished pergola, base for chicken coop. At the top is me in the mighty Lesbaru as we headed home after purchasing our spare freezer for the garage. Somehow that relates to the garden because of all the food that will go in it...:)
