thinning

I made a half-hearted try at applying jinian's spare rhizobial bacteria to the legumes.

Poppies are coming up. I tried these seeds ten years ago and never got them past the cotyledons, so we'll see what they'll do.

I thinned out some mustard greens, and tried them. A nibble has a thin peppery bite, just like shotweed, yep. A fuller mouthful carries the flavor of mustard -- I will have to eat a good wodge of shotweed to see if it does that too.

The winged bean thinnings, raw, were hispid, insipid, just a little bitter, but cooked in butter tasted distinctly of asparagus. I wonder if they'd make you pee thioesters too.

The alyssum thinnings I just left where they fell. Must remember in future that five minutes of care to apply seeds very lightly can save ten of tweezing them out by the hundreds.

Only two beans had germinated, it seemed. But look at that mound, hollow-sounding, a bubble of earth -- crumbling the crust of soil found the missing beans, pallid but mighty.

The ginger shoot tips are not wilting over; that's just their manner of unfurling leaves.

I will repair hair-do, will tint cilia.

Who you in the Mumi- portion?

( quiz result )

Thank you, thank you. It is all because I picked the one with the Proteus mirabilis.