Sprouting

This would be the year for a great garden, and maybe it still can be.  With attention to pots at the front door easily accessible for care, layering of soil and nutrients in the backyard beds, nearly daily care to the aerogarden, and not getting too frustrated with chia pot disappointments, real progress emerges.  Planting seeds or placing nursery plants in the soil has its measure of satisfaction.  Weeding and thinning much less so.  But I'm at the weeding and thinning stage.  The pots only needed coriander selected as the healthiest looking of adjacent stems.  In the backyard, though, things appeared more challenging.  While I know where I placed the seeds, having made a good map, some rain or hose watering may have shifted some of the upper soil and the seeds with them.  For early sprouts I am often not sure which are the desired plants, therefore they have to be left alone until the appearance declares itself.  Some such as dill have delicate stems where more than one seedling in a planting hole germinated.  

Census in the backyard thus far:  tomatoes less vigorous growth than hoped but all viable.  Pepper, one schvok plant, replanted new seeds in each of the two allotted squares.  Eggplant not sure.  Bok Choi not sure.  Beans mostly OK.  Arugula too delicate to thin.  Swiss Chard limited sprouting from a usually easy to grow seed, though mine were dated for previous years.  Cucumber looked great.  Weeded and thinned.

Dill thinned with difficulty in hopes of more vigorous sprouts.  Chives needed some big weeds removed.  Marjoram and oregano uncertain.  Sage had a small plant with characteristic leaves right in the center of its square.  All other greenery plucked from that square.  Basil uncertain.  Thyme too delicate to thin. Coriander too delicate to thin.

Benign neglect for another week or so, then reassess.