Tag: beginner gardener

I am at a point where I can verify that food is actually growing.

There are still a lot of seedlings, though, and many of them look alike, so I have to be careful about what I pull out when weeding.

My cucumber starts died, so I bought four new starts and planted those. The pole beans haven’t germinated yet, so I reseeded in the hopes of getting more than two beans this year.

I transferred my tomatillo starts to bigger containers. They were really leggy in the smaller ones and pretty floppy, so I’m not convinced these will thrive either. RIP tomatillos.

Pepper transfers went well. I expect to plant those next week. After that, I’ll transfer my tomato starts to larger containers and start hardening them off outside.

So far, I’ve been able to identify: carrots, lettuce, arugula, Swiss chard, chervil, dill, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cilantro, clary sage, and lemon balm.

To delineate the beds, I used a hoe to make sections. Then I realized that hoeing is actually the best way to get rid of weeds—if you don’t have to worry about destroying your hard-earned seedlings.

The problem is that I can’t really hoe anything but the beds, because then I won’t know where the beds start and end anymore.

One of the things I’m fighting is a clover cover crop (which I definitely didn’t plant), but I actually like it in between the beds. I think it looks cool. So I decided to just take out the bigger weeds in between the beds and let the clover stay.