Pollywogs!

…doesn’t really have a great ring, huh…

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We expanded our square foot gardening this year to two 4′ x 4′ plots. Added more lettuce, fewer tomatoes, more broccoli and cauliflower, and in general more things that we usually go through a lot of.  Started some plants indoors this year, some cilantro, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, broccoli and whatnot, which rabbits or deer cleaned out nearly immediately. Well, everything but the cilantro and lettuce. I then applied a bit of blood meal to the top of the bed and the immediate area. When Kelley came home with the bulk of the baby plants from Shaffer’s Greenhouse (I think I saw Jamie at the Tia a week or so ago but it’s been so long I probably couldn’t tell her from her sister anymore), I assembled the new bed, treated the top edges of the boards of both beds with Vick’s VapoRub and applied more blood meal to the new bed and area.  Finally, a bit of pine bark mulch on top to help hold in moisture (actually a problem with how much rain we’ve been getting lately, the basil in paticular doesn’t look happy).   Thought I’d taken a nice photo in the day, couldn’t find it on either camera nor the phone, so here’s a night shot taken a few minutes ago:

BTW I’m using imgur.com for my temporary image hosting purposes these days, their clean interface has won me over from tinypic.com.  Kelley bought Romaine and I mixed that half and half between the two beds, the very thick looking lettuce in the far (old) bed is from a seed pack labled “spicy mix”, some leafy stuff, some reddish stuff…doing very well!