Dirt

This year, with all the activity in the past year, I was pretty lackadaisical with my seed planting. I gave the pods I bought to our daughter-in-law, and planted seeds directly in large pots of soil (covered with plastic). Nothing happened for 6 weeks indoors so I just put them outside. Well, that did the trick, but the timing has also coincided with birds nesting. I hear they need mud?

Now I have 4 pots of plucked dirt, 2 daylily seedlings, and some sunflower seedlings that I did not intentionally plant (but we do feed).

At least the forget-me-nots look great this year again.

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I have ordered some protective grates for the pots. They should arrive this week. Then I’ll transplant the daylilies and put cherry tomatoes and greens into the pots.If the sunflowers survive and bloom – bonus!

It’s a simplified year.