Sunday Gardening

Since the rain has finally stopped I have a chance to get out in the yard again. Since we ate the last of the Mixed Lettuce planted in October last night at dinner I bought some Buttercrunch/Bibb lettuce to replace it and planted that this afternoon. Since the soil is pretty dense clay I mixed in some sand to see if that helps with drainage. I also added some vegetable food into the soil too since I think the soil is still repairing itself after bearing barren for who knows how long. We'll see if that helps my new little lettuces.

I also noticed that my broccoli is starting to flower unfortunately. I guess with that heat spell we had the soil got too hot and it started to bolt. I found this article on growing cold weather crops and keeping the soil cool, so I'm going to try to keep it cooled down with cold water and may have to shade them if we keep getting so much sun. I pinched off most of the flowering part and after such a sunny day I'm going to put some ice cubes on top of the much between the plants to slowly cool down the soil. I was really looking forward to eating some of this fun spiral variety so hopefully I'll be able to salvage some of it.