Busy busy...

It's been a tremendously busy time of the year for me. I've had time enough to water, but that's about it. Today, though, was absolutely perfect weather, and I spent most of it out of doors, cleaning out my winter garden and sowing seeds for the hot and rainy season that is around the corner. Let's see, quickly...

• In my Parks dome...
  
• 10A-C Globe Basil
• D-F Genoa Basil
• 9A-C Pineapple Tomatillo
• 9D-F and 7, 8: Cleome Dwarf Spiders from Parks
• 5,6: Zinnia 'Ruffles Yellow'
• 3,4: 'Desert Sun' Zinnias (these performed very well for me last year)
• 1,2: 'Dasher' Zinnias (love those Parks $1 sales!)
• In some little pots...
• Bunny Tail Grass
• Green Cat Goose Grass
• From the awesome DeLand 'plante' sale, I got a Dwarf Cavendish banana and some Blackberries... I'm skeptical that the latter will do well, but the owner assured me... Both of these went into my garden today.
• In the veg garden, I transplanted/planted:
  
• Quailgrass
• Amaranth (both this and the above from ECHO)
• Genoa Basil
• Cucino cukes
• Lemongrass

Some other garden notes...

• Blueberries: Some are ripe and ready to be picked tomorrow morning...
• The blueberry cuttings I got this winter: They're covered in leaves and today I gently pulled one from its pot to find... ROOTS! Hurray!
• Strawberries: Lots of berries out there, but I realize that a small berry patch (mine is 10x15) will yield no more than a couple handfuls a day. To really supply a family of four, you'd need no fewer than 75 plants. That said, the berries are beautiful and tasty, and I've used no pesticides and only a bit of synthetic fertilizers this year. I cannot tell the difference between Sweet Charlies and Chandlers. The Chandlers I got as bare-root, the Charlies as potted plants. They didn't produce much during the winter, but they've surely earned their place in my garden.
  
• Figs: First leaves, fruit's already formed.