The Night Garden

The temperature here tonight is 73F (22C) with an occasional gentle breeze. It feels good. But lately I've been worrying about my okra (they seems too small). Then the other night I decided to just stick my cayenne pepper seedlings into the ground even though they only have about 3 leaves and are so tiny I still might mistake them for weeds and yank them out one day. It's been in the 80s and sunny here all week, it just seemed warm enough for some things to go into the ground. But then I worried it was too soon and that they were so small that little buggies would nibble them.

I'm a worry-er.

Then tonight I realized I could protec them for a while more even it all it does is to make me feel better. I've cut up some plastic bottles and put them over some of the smaller seedlings as DYI garden cloches. I also used one big plastic food container. Here are a few pictures.

cayenne peppers under plastic


okra @ night


OH, one of the broadbeans has got blossoms!
broad bean blossoms by flashlight


I'll remove the DYI cloche in the morning and if they look worse for wear I won't do it again tomorrow night.