Transplanted a pot of pak choy today. It was so much work in the little free time that I have that I didn't even check the other half dozen pots for roots. The pak choy barely had a few sticking out, but they were good and wrapped around the soil once I pulled out the plant and dirt. I have a different crop in each of the other pots, and each one has 3 to 4 plants.

Oh darn, it's going to be freezing for a couple nights, so I'm not sure if my young plants will make it. We mulched our plants though.

There are also about a half a dozen sweet potato plants who are due for harvest any time this month. I don't expect to find much, but I plan to keep adding mulch. Also, I cut the grass away from one.

Additionally, there was a smaller patch of beans, so I cut the grass from around half of them and put nitrogen-fixing cover crop seeds all around them. (vetch and 3 types of clover)

The small native bushes have their yellow X flowers, but I didn't like their picture.

Most of my garden died during the drought of June. There is one garden bed with maybe a dozen bean or buckwheat plants, so today, I took the grass plants out of that bed, raked out the leaves except the ones around the plants, added more leaves around plants as necessary, and dropped about 2 dozen crop seeds and about half a dozen cover crop seeds.

I pulled up all the burnweed/fireweed because they're not a strong native plant, and they were irritating the landlady.

By "gradually", I meant, once or twice a week, some weeks, 3 times. So many seeds, didn't get outside. Changed my outline process after a few lines. Rained a couple times, both with thunder.

I expect to use the scythe again to gently pull up some tall, thin grass plants without much if any soil on roots, but the rain might make that harder; and the drought probably made that easier. It didn't work as well recenty, and I thought it was because there were more plants, closer together.

Landlady wants me to clean up my #garden plot, so I am making a list of possible #seeds to sow. I'll make a garden bed today and gradually clean up the plot if she lets me move that slow. I'll put some seeds on that bed. I bought a cheap little notebook for the next year of #gardening, and I'll keep a record of what seeds I sowed, when I can expect to harvest their crop, and any other packet information like when they germinate.

oh, I have to take Java for a #computerScience degree 😦 I don't think anything I want to program uses Java 😕 Maybe it's the "object-oriented" programming that's important. I wonder if anything I want to program uses object-oriented programming.... 🤔 Sometimes, I get the feeling I should do the programming without college classes, get into the free software network, and get paid somehow and that universities are against decentralized libre software....

#nativeAmericans were holding a service for desecrated remains when an off-duty officer assaulted one of them
https://www.witn.com/2024/07/17/former-onslow-co-deputy-charged-bridge-view-archaeological-dispute/

#sunrise #waterfront #river

Wow, that math was hard. I was too tired. #computerScience

finally got around to harvesting some more buckwheat seeds, but some of them had germinated pink roots while still attached to the plant!

had to move my pots again. sounded like both pots were rooted, so I might lose plants again.

have to remember to open up my rain bucket to catch the next rain. lucky another one is approaching.

We might have got 4 inches of rain!

forgot to collect #seeds yesterday or Saturday. There were about a dozen mustard #seed pods to collect today.

watched a pbs show about the 3 polar ice caps melting (Himalayas is the 3rd with the Arctic and Antarctica)
I liked the snow leopard. My world isn't going to be how it was when I was a child. Our world is falling apart, and the US Atlantic coast is going to get a few major hurricanes this year! I'm actually looking forward to a tropical storm, so my garden will get a lot of rain! 🌧️ I put out some lightweight plant (cover, flowers, bush beans, field peas, kale, mustard) or root vegetable seeds.

We haven't been getting any rain, so my plants are looking really thirsty. Yesterday, I decided to #mulch all of the patches in one of my #garden beds. I have lots of magnolia leaves in my garden plot that sits somewhat under a tree, so I repeatedly picked up two handfuls of the completely dry and brittle leaves, crunched them up in my hands, and covered all the dirt around the plants. I was fairly sure no other plants were going to germinate.

I hope the peas got big enough; I don't remember them this smol but maybe

My garden has a lot of plants who have been thirsty for too long, but some plants, like the native plants, vetch, and some crops here and there, especially in partial shade, look alright. I collected my wando pea seed pods, (pictured) and I mulched the one "big" corn plant I have. (almost a foot tall with big arches) I used some crumpled leaves, some hair! and some coffee grounds that I put out in a mulch pile last week. #gardening #seedSaving

@Hellybootwader That looks like my garden beds, but your brassicas are bigger.

I had dumped my coffee grounds out in my piles of #mulch, and when the coffee dries, I can easily sprinkle it around my plants 🙂