OMG Kathy! Did You Get Your Tiny Cabbages Planted before The Almost Certain Rain Tomorrow?!?!?!?

Enormous Grub Poops in my Hand.

Of course I did. But first, a gratuitous photo of a gigantic Grub crapping in my hand!

Then, let us join hands in prayerful expectation of RAIN, which there is an 80% chance of tomorrow, and even as I TYPE THIS, my radar shows a line of violent thunderstorms drifting in an Austinly direction! I may be wakening to the sound of thunder at 4 AM.

After a day like today, where I did a million things IN ADDITION to a Herculean Gardening Chore, I feel too tired to do much ‘splaining. Let us proceed DIRECTLY to the DOCUMENTATION:

Where is the Bed? I can't see it for all the weeds....oh, THERE it is, inside the barely visible brick outline

For Contrast, here you see on the left, a FINISHED BED, next to THE WEEDY BED that we will be working on today

Now, a photo of the bed, weeded:

I Have Weeded It

I found a few surviving beets and onions, that lived through the merciless heat and drought in the shade of the native weed-cover.

What a Fine White Onion, a SURVIVOR!

What a fine onion! I left him there to delight in the cooler temperatures and rain of Autumn

Now, a photo of the bed with three piles of screened compost:

This is just about the L*A*S*T of my homemade compost! Things are not breaking down very quickly in the DROUGHT

PLANTED!

All Planted! THis bed's new name shall be THE CABBAGE BED

Cauliflower in the back, then cabbages, then a row of “recovered” onions that I found, still alive, under the shade of the weeds, then Beets. Tomorrow, I will do a little post on BEETS, like my CARROTS: THE PLANTING post.