Rainy Friday
It's been a productive week, I'd say. We are nearly done planting veggies and herbs. Today the ground was too muddy from all the rain so we are waiting a bit to get the hot pepper seeds in. Probably be Sunday before it is dry enough to finish what we started yesterday. Instead of planting we brought down the last of the gardening things from the 3rd floor and arranged the basement garden room so everything is in one place for us. Also set up the hammock stand outside and put out the hanging plants to give them a bit of sun and rain before they are hung up on the front porch.
Finally found the lost-sheep sedum that I couldn't locate. It was indeed in the front side bed, but under many weedy leaves. Tore them out and gave him some sun. Bought a new peony for the front since last year's was stepped on by someone. That's why I put up the little metal green fences. Really can't expect people to see in the dark and the plants are fragile in their early stages. The honeysuckle flowers have now been followed by tons of little tiny green berries which should grow and turn bright red. Will look very nice.
We have flowers on the raspberries although none yet on the strawberries, and just planted rhubarb, sunflower seeds, zucchini, basil, arugula, all the lettuces and tomatoes, nasturtiums (for salads), and some lilies and a tulip that came home from church with us. Still have to do hot peppers, cucumbers, tri-color beans, lavender and catnip in the edible/useful line. After that, flower seed packets from last year and random bulbs that never got in the ground. We'll see what Mother Nature provides. It's hard to keep her down. I hope. After the initial push in vegetables, we'll switch to washing/cleaning the pollen off of the front porch! and other easy tidying. Then it's back to the garden.
It's starting to look good and that keeps me going.
Finally found the lost-sheep sedum that I couldn't locate. It was indeed in the front side bed, but under many weedy leaves. Tore them out and gave him some sun. Bought a new peony for the front since last year's was stepped on by someone. That's why I put up the little metal green fences. Really can't expect people to see in the dark and the plants are fragile in their early stages. The honeysuckle flowers have now been followed by tons of little tiny green berries which should grow and turn bright red. Will look very nice.
We have flowers on the raspberries although none yet on the strawberries, and just planted rhubarb, sunflower seeds, zucchini, basil, arugula, all the lettuces and tomatoes, nasturtiums (for salads), and some lilies and a tulip that came home from church with us. Still have to do hot peppers, cucumbers, tri-color beans, lavender and catnip in the edible/useful line. After that, flower seed packets from last year and random bulbs that never got in the ground. We'll see what Mother Nature provides. It's hard to keep her down. I hope. After the initial push in vegetables, we'll switch to washing/cleaning the pollen off of the front porch! and other easy tidying. Then it's back to the garden.
It's starting to look good and that keeps me going.