May spring garden: kale, radish, & lettuce

Sunday, May 7, 2023

Howdy folks! Hope you're all well and getting your garden groove on. I have been extremely late to the garden game this year, but fully intend to spend the next few weeks ramping up by transplanting; and will need to get tomatoes and peppers out, as well as sowing seed of corn, squash and beans in the garden. 

Yesterday, I tranpslanted radish, kale, and lettuce into the garden. I germinated these seeds in March, and planted the germinated seeds in small container pots with a mix I made of perlite, vermiculite, peat poss, coconut coir and garden soil. 

I have kept the germinated seedlings growing outside in a mini-greenhouse so they would already be acclimated to the outside. The plants have doubled their size in the last 2 weeks, so I knew I needed to get them transplanted, especially since the month of May was creeping up.

While I was gardening, I also stopped to snap a few shots at the Iris and tulip flowers growing around the garden.

My cactus plants have steadily been blooming all year, each different one blooming. I have two pink Flowering cacti plants and one that is red and white striped.

I will have more plant and garden updates for you in the next few weeks!

Vacation Beach Pictures

As much as I hate to spend too much time away from the garden when I have free time-- I very much enjoyed our trip to South West Florida. It was the perfect amount of warmth, sun, and chill vibes that I needed to break away from the day to day grind.

Some of the beautiful pictures I captured were of sunny blue sky's, hot white sandy beaches, and salty spatoons.

I have been working a lot and also going to school for my Master's degree, so as soon as my semester ended-- I took a trip to several beautiful beaches: Venice beach (South Jettys), Englewood Beach (Blind Pass), Boca Grande, and Siesta Key (Sarasota). 

Below are pictures from siesta key...

Here are pictures of Boca Grande

Here is Venice beach,  also known as South Jettys. This beach was full of seaweed sargassum. It felt very dirty because of the algae. I felt like I was drinking and wearing brown watery plant matter. 

But I love Venice Beach because it always has the most sea life of the other beaches I typically visit. Last year, I saw dolphins for the first and a live crab for the first time here at Venice beach. This year I watched a quick crab side step walk along the shire line.

Last but not least: Englewood Beach, or Blind Pass, is my favorite beach. There are so many beautiful Hollywood looking beach houses on this island...