Garden report

Lettuce looking delicious!   As usual, I forgot to check the radishes in time.  The two I pulled yesterday were in supernova stage.




Sunflowers a little uneven but growing like weeds.  Which they are.  I don't know what makes the leaves be a little wavy and distorted.  A virus, perhaps?












And finally,

Who ate the pepper?

Back in a long-forgotten college class called Desert Ecology, we quantified plant mass by tossing a big hula-hoop thingy at random onto a section of ground.  We would then identify, list, and count every plant in the space.  Or...maybe we didn't count--just identify and list.

A failure to count would make my garden look good.  In a given square foot you would find four or five species--

1. Onion
2. Johnson grass
3. Henbit
4. Ragweed
5. The rounded leaf thingy

Guess which of the five is the desired species?

A count of the plants would be much more revealing--
1. Onion: 16
2. Johnson grass: 2300
3. Henbit: 30
4. Ragweed: 5
5. Rounded leaf thingy: 10