New sprouts and mulching

A trip out to the plot this morning yielded some decent progress.  I wasn't able to get any planting done, however, I finally laid down more newspaper and mulch.  This went adjacent to the boxes I sunk in January.  So that's pretty much done.

One thing I did a bit of back in January/February was work to put some plastic in the ground along the borders of the plot.  I thought I blogged about this, but can't seem to find any posts about that.  It had occurred to me at some point in my weeding this fall that there are a number of weeds that get into the plot by way of sending runners from outside the plot.  The only way to do that is to put in a wall.  As a result, I bought some ~1/8" thick plastic from The Forklift and cut it such that it's approx 12" wide.  I sunk approx 6" underground and left the rest sticking up above-ground.  I put that plastic in place along one entire side of the plot, approx a quarter of another, and a third of the "front" fence before I got distracted by something shiny.  Not sure why I never finished that task, but it seemed like a valid reason at the time, I'm sure.  I got a bit more of that in today in the "front" fence adjacent to the path.

In addition to that stuff, I was happy to pick more snow peas (which somehow ended up in The Boy's belly).  I also saw that the cucumbers and their radishes are doing better (minus the batch that got stepped on by The Boy).  The scarlet runner beans are starting to come up, some of the green beans are up, and the borage and sunflowers are both just peeking through the soil.

Cucumbers

A few beans