my own drum

Ahhhhh! That was the sound my neighbors heard last night. I came in after 10pm, and took my flashlight out to the garden to have a last look at my new tomato sprouts. I had planted the seeds in a plat, and set that plat on one the paid spots in the garden so it could get some afternoon sun. Sometime after I left yesterday that gardener came in in worked their space. My best guess is they never saw the few little sprouts in my plat. They emptied the plat onto one or more mounds that were built. My poor seedlings! I'm bummed.

Today I went to the dollar store in hopes of finding more tomato seeds. There weren't any, but I did pick up quite a few other things.

Back at the garden I got busy with my new seeds. At the front of the garden I planted flowers - marigolds, bachelor bottoms (mixed colors), cockscomb (plumosa mixed colors), and gypsophila (babys breath). These were planted in the first two plots near the front. These two plots are under the trees and mostly shaded all day. I hope to have some color near the front of the garden now. No one else is planting flowers that I can tell.

Then I got busy in my plot at the back, where I planted vegetables. I started there about 10 days ago with Wanda peas, which are already out of the ground. Today I planted lettuce (Black Seesed Simpson), summer squash, turnips, carrots (Mantes Coreless), early radish, and eggplant (Black Beauty).

I still have a few more things to plant there, including two varieties of radish, and okra. I'll post more when those get into the ground.

For those who are following my blog, you'll have noticed that today I crated a new category, Community Gardening, where I'll be writing about the garden. There is much to learn and much more to tell.

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