I'll have only so many gardens in my life, so if I want

to learn, it's worth making the most of each year. This year, I want to: ◦ follow the sun around, moving containers as needed (strawberries while they're small; tomatoes and peppers maybe) ◦ practise succession planting and companion planting: radishes, lettuce, spinach, and Bok Choy everywhere ° Scale up bitter melon now that W-'s figured out germination • try different kinds of plants to see what else we might get along with: potatoes, zinnias, carrots, daikon • take notes, draw diagrams, label plants ◦ get back to turning the compost • use the grow lights for extra seedlings ◦ learn how to pinch & prune; build up my TODOS We might be limited by shade and sandy soil, but I can still learn how to work with those constraints. I have some time in the morning to work on the garden, and maybe again early evening. I'm enjoying seeing the radishes sprout, and the strawberries I stashed in the garden are coming back. (Maybe I'll stash them near the front next time) The daffodils I'd given up on are back, hooray! We'll see how things go over the next few weeks. Challenges: • Organizing my notes • Watering in summer • Plant ID • Orgzly for quick ° 2- 3x a day? ° Drawings, observations/notes • Inside growing: pictures ◦ Refile at PC lettuce, etc. ° FB group • TODOS • Super note sketches ◦ Yogurt container strips Things I want to learn in the garden 2023-04-26-02