Focused Task!

I'm digging this focused task approach.  It can be difficult not to be distracted by a secondary chore, but I'm getting better at catching myself before I stray, and staying on track.

Focused Task #2 was to replenish the big planter at the house with new, pee-free soil.  Mother's cat decided that was a delightful place for a wee last summer and nearly ruined my leek harvest.  I ended up removing most of the soil and then never got around to refilling it, so once I'd pulled all the curly willow sticks out of it, I figured it was time.  A new load of 50/50 soil/compost mix with some perlite added for good measure, and it was ready to plant.  I have three varieties of peppers that I started this spring: Thai, Hungarian Hot Wax, and California Sweet.  I purchased one bell variety and two jalapenos, so I think that should be a good mix.  

 

I added a couple basil plants and a curled parsley, then between the rows I planted carrots to the back and radish to the front.  To top it all off, I even mulched!  Job done.  And how about that clematis?  With the Ragged Robin at its feet and the mallow looking very shrub-like, it's a smorgasbord of pinks.  

Focused task #3 was redoing the inside of the polytunnel.  The grass and weeds had started pushing through the woodchips I had put down a few years ago, so I weedwacked the grass, put down large cardboard boxes with the sides up to discourage weeds along the edges, remulched, then potted up my tomatoes.

 

Sadly, I've hit another period of ennui, and just haven't had the desire to start more seeds.  These were a garden center six pack of beefsteak tomatoes.  I'm thinking of starting some Chadwick Cherry tomatoes because they did so well last year, and I like the large size of them for cherries.  If I do, they'll be planted in the bench pots, so only four need to be germinated.  

Next focused task?  So many to choose from.  The mule fence, the hillside garden fence, the cat fence, the front pasture fence, the re-mulching of the hillside garden, the de-grassing of the backyard bank, the finishing of the alpine garden, the moving of the manure piles...now I've done it.  I'm overwhelmed and anxious and can only muster a plaintive whine of defeat. F O C U S, woman.  Focus.