The race

[vgqn]

In an exciting race against the impending rain, I

• planted a Mariposa plum tree (to replace the Elephant Heart plum that had died)
• planted two six-packs of lettuce, since all my fall planted lettuce has bolted now
• scattered seed for
  • a lettuce cut & come again patch,
  • more spinach to replace the fall planted batch,
  • a bunch of carrots (3 colors!),
  • some radishes amidst the carrots, and
  • more of my beloved Cylindra beets. I'm hoping that said rain will keep all of these seeds moist enough to germinate. I usually do better with transplants, but we'll see.
• and finally, I planted the second package of asparagus crowns! Yes, between being sick and the frequent (and welcome) rains, I hadn't managed to get the second pack of asparagus planted. But it's in the ground in one of the backyard beds now, and I have my fingers crossed.

Now I'm going to enjoy a nice glass of King Eider vermouth before making dinner (lamb chops, glazed carrots, and frisee salad).

Oh, I did get a few drops of rain on me, but it hasn't started raining in earnest yet. So I declare I won the race.

Comments

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Just something (from the rack in a Yuppie Boutique-y place in Claremont) that struck my eye -- labeled only as "Gourmet Blend" from Irish Eyes -- Garden City(?).

My impression is that the sweet/mild-enough-to-eat-raw yellow carrots are a recent (less than a century ago) Dutch development, and that the darker-skinned ones, especially, are more like the bitter/medicinal wild form. Some of these, however, do turn very sweet if cooked for a long time.