Maybe it they are precious and you wanted to be sure you would get good germination I might dig them up, BUT I would also keep an eye on them, because if the soil is really wet they might be starting to germinate already anyway! At least, if you soak beans they will sometimes start to sprout the very next day! Otherwise, I might just leave them. They might take a bit longer, but they probably will mostly germinate. 
Itās late enough that I imagine the soil is not really cold still, just not optimal.
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Thanks! I will leave them be(an). They were free and I have more left to fill in the failures.
In other news, we have our first lettuce sprouts! FREE LETTUCE FOR EVERYONE! IN 1.5 TO 2 MONTHS!
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Cilantro seedlings are go.
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I love this more than I probably should.
Are orca beans going to be the next thing we all buy? Iām thinking about getting some. Theyāre too cute not to.
Also I mapped out my (brand new) garden earlier this week and I think I might actually have some extra space 
I was thinking I would stick with what I have for now and see how it goes, but maybe Iāll fill the extra spaces with orca beans.
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Do eeeet! We can have long distance orca twins. Maybe I can mail you some of mine so theyāre from the same litter and will be able to communicate telepathically. 
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I also am trying orca beans for the first time this year!
I planted my beans during the heat wave last weekend before it cooled down, so Iām in the same boat 
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Weed or plant? I have these popping up everywhere in the area I had a bunch of spinach that went to seed. It looks weird but that spinach looked weird to me too?
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That would be amazing. If I can get them to grow maybe I can pay them forward to someone else and we can get an OMD orca club going.
Although if they can communicate telepathically maybe theyāre too sentient to justify eating them?
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Itās a bit hard for me to tell in the photo, but they could be native (or cultivated) sunflowers. They germinate relatively early, and are relatively hardy.
(If they are, FWIW, I let lots of sunflowers grow around my yard, they are pollinator attractors (especially a wide variety of bees).)
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Thatās what I got from an image search, but I was just surprised because I have no idea where it could have come from! Though I guess I did top-layer with compostā¦ Maybe seeds ended up in the compost at the source?
Whatever, Iāll roll with it, but I wonāt eat it until itās obvious.
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If they are, youāll be able to tell in a few weeks probably. They grow quite large, especially the native ones (I usually have to cut them down in the fall with loppers the stems get so big) and mine often would grow 8+ feet tall, with dozens of flowers and branches, so you may want to, in a few weeks, strategically thin them so all your garden beds arenāt 100% sunflowers. 
The seeds may have been dropped by birds too. But Iād put my money on the compost.
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They seem to be mostly focused in one bedā¦ thankfully I guess?
This year I have a lot of shrugging over random plants cropping up and going āas long itās not one of those spiky weeds or grass it can stayā.
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There is a picture online of the common sunflower seedling that looks exactly like these.
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This is my weeding strategy. Non-spikey plants often have good flowers for pollinators to be interested in, or offer extra snackage for my snail population.
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If you feed birds (or a neighbor does) bird feed is a common source of sunflower seedlings.
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I donāt, not sure about my neighbors.
Though we do have native sunflowers here.
Oh, and forgot! Another zombie squash seedling! Maybe the seeds werenāt as old as I thought.
Something ate almost all my turnip and rutabaga babies, so now I must wait for a fall crop. What else can I grow in shade but heat?
Tomatoes were yellowing on lower leaves, so i added nitrogen today. You may not want to know how.
How
Pee. It was pee.
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Tomorrow is the date when itās theoretically safe to plant out. But Iām seeing temps in the 40s at night and Iām not sure my (very large) tomato babies can handle that.
Two more weeks maybe?
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Personally I would not plant out if overnight lows were still consistently in the 40s. Personally. You could use frost cloth and such, or walls of water, but EHā¦ easier to just wait a week or two. Last year my tomatoes didnāt get planted until the first week of June. Still got lots of tomatoes. Itās difficult to be patient though, I know this so well.
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