This year's actual garden (as opposed to plants in general) is shaping up to be at least a partial failure. I've planted spinach 3 freaking times in the past two months, and what's out there now would maybe be enough to feed a small gerbil with no appetite. I don't know why it won't grow, but it's making me angry and frustrated. The only thing I've actually grown and eaten so far is about 6 radishes. Spinach and lettuce are failing spectacularly, and the peas are iffy. Something snacked on part of the first batch, and the second batch is just sort of stalled out. I may blame the weather - it was a freakish 90 degrees on March 30, which may have done in the spinach. And it's going to be upper 80s the rest of this week, so I'm not sure planting more spinach right now would do any good. I'm ready to rake up the first round and replant with fresh seed, but I don't know if it'll grow enough before it gets hot to be worthwhile.
The big plan was to have at least something from the garden for El B's birthday party at the end of May. Not gonna happen, I don't think. The peas are blooming and may be ready by then, but there's like 15 plants, and 20+ people in the family. One pea each?
This sucks.
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