More Seeds & a Garden Fresh Salad

Well, the heat and humidity just refuses to arrive and stay. We get a day or two here and there which then make way for dryer, cooler days and downright chilly evenings. In addition to that, the mosquitoes are out early this year and I have plenty of proof already.

Today I replanted peas in the garden as the original plantings only produced 3 plants with one devoured by possibly slugs. I also took advantage of a an emptier side of the same garden bed to plant black beans. And replanted some zucchini seeds where the cats trampled the one that was sprouting up.

I came across my pepperoncini seeds today. Not the ones that produced elongated fruit. I knew I had seed packs for the short ones that you can purchase pickled in jars. Well, today they came out of hiding and I filled a container with their seeds and covered it up with some metal mesh to prevent the squirrels from digging up.

I have several additional containers to plant. Just have to decide what to put in them. Leaning towards spinach. And waiting for the hot and humid days.

And today enjoyed a beautiful salad made with lettuce from the garden. This year we shall have a great harvest of several types of lettuce which not only tastes superb but also is economical considering the high price of lettuce nowadays. I prefer my salads just with lettuce. Tomatoes tend to make the salad too watery. But I like tomatoes on their own. I feel the same way about cucumbers. However I don't mind radishes in the salad.

Overnight Outflow Winds

Not as warm today. Official high temp in the upper 70s with early evening cooling that required a long-sleeved shirt. Well, as promised, here are some photos of the urn-type vase I planted Gladiolus bulbs in:

Overnight there was outflow from strong to severe thunderstorms west of here. Received a warning from the weather service that 40 mph winds were on their way. Woke up to this:

The Forsythia flowers just blew off the bush. It's too bad because the flowers only last in spring and came rather late this year.

Planted additional kernels of corn and string beans today in addition to okra and peas. Okra has never done well in this garden, neither through seed nor through transplanting sprouted plants from the nurseries. Tomorrow I shall plant some zucchini and perhaps some decorative gourds/squash seeds. Always have had success with zucchini and sometimes with pie pumpkins and decorative fall squash varieties.

Finally, a few varieties of store-bought lettuce are growing nicely: