I also worked on the bed for the lemon grass. It's got 12" of compost and 10 lbs of charcoal worked into it now.
I broke down and actually watered the onions and potatoes in the big garden with city water. I'm completely out of rain water. I hope it doesn't kill my microbes in my soil.
I also started from seed my romas, 108 tobacco, jalapenos, NM chili peppers, and the baby bell peppers that my daughter wanted.
Some of the spinach is up. Everything in the cold frame is doing well except for the broccoli that is just too darn tall for the lid.
/johnny
I covet your warm weather. I believe that I read that letting city water set for an hour or so can help make it less harmful to plants.
We use only rain water or well water. City water would have to be hauled in. The only time we did that was when we had the really bad summer drought where all the rain water was gone by the end of May.
Then we watered the perennials-fruit trees and bushes, and let everything else burn up, except for a few heirlooms in my raised bed next to the house.
You Texans. Supposed to go to -8 next week up here in Kansas. I picked the worse year to install and heat a greenhouse through the winter. Costing me a fortune. My wife's flowers are making it through but I think it would be less cost to buy new ones. Hopefully mid-month I can get some veggies going.
I hurt my right foot last week and I'm limping on it now which is better than cringing every time I put it on the floor and it fits in the shoe again. I had to get out today to pick up meds at drug store, something at Lowes and go to the liquor store (that was the most important as I was out of Amaretto, so got that and a bottle of sweet and sour mix to make Amaretto Sours, have to look up the recipe), absolutely had to go to grocery, from one end to the other, and when I got home, I was exhausted from the limping. Washed my hands really good and stayed away from people as much as possible.
I am so tired, Johnny, I can't plant anything today. Tomorrow, I'll do the tobacco and I read the way you do it, with the paper and knife and I'll do it that way, too.
I have some seeds to plant in February. Earlier, I studied every seed packet I had and noted when to plant them in general and how deep to plant them - wrote that all on the seeds packets so I could see it quickly, then separated all the packets and that's it and I'm not doing that over. What it is, is what it is.
I have bunches to plant the first of March and they are all in a plastic bag. My February bag is the tobacco, Carolina Cucumbers the first of February, Sun King Hybrid Broccoli middle of February, Supremo Hybrid Cucumber and National Pickling Cucumber the last week of February.
I have a garden of plants under the grow lamp growing larger and larger. Surely would like to get those outside but I don't trust this February weather at all based on January weather. I will have to get more potting soil mix but not until the foot is good. I have plenty of seed starter so don't need that.