Maintenance Day

It was time to thin the carrots again.  I am having great luck with them this year thanks to diligently watering them every day this spring.  It isn't as easy to thin carrots in a container as it is in a row.  In a row you can just run a rake across them.  In a pot you have to set yourself down on a stool and work at it.  They all look a little disheveled afterwards, like they just got up and need to fix their hair.

I opened up the cole crop bed for the first time in weeks to pull a few weeds and break off some lower leaves that were yellowing,

The Golden Acre cabbage is starting to form heads but the other is not yet.

The peas ought to be blooming tomorrow.

I planted almost all of the rest of my hundred marigolds.  In some spots the daffodils are getting in the way.  The trouble with daffs is that if you cut them down you lose your stored energy for blooms next year.  You have to wait for the leaves to yellow and die on their own.  But you also don't want them laying around getting in the way.  You can tie them up so the leaves can still do their photosynthesis thing.  You would think they might object to this treatment but they don't,

They just look a little weird.  

The same hairstyle as Nori the Dwarf

My peonies began to bloom last evening.