Started planting annuals

I am thinking that it is going to be above freezing for the season now!

Today I walked the wagon to Suncliff and spent over $40!
I splurged on a fuchsia. The lady there told me I should bring it in when it gets really hot and humid and then bring it back out in the fall.

JL planted in the square garden that is not elevated. He planted two cucumbers, a jalapeño and some marigolds.

I planted a sweet 100 tomato in the front new bed. A bunch of annual flowers in that bed too though I don't remember what they were. I also planted zinnias in hanging and non-hanging pots for the porch. I planted a gerbera daisy in both of the front big pots. I planted a zucchini where the garbanzo were last year and then a celebrity tomato in the garden. I planted three marigolds in the garden too.

I pulled out the dead rosemary and that made me sad. I planted a red pepper plant there. I have a feeling that rosemary may not be a companion to peppers, but we will see. I'm thinking that I'm not going to get another rosemary this year. I'll wait a year since I didn't end up using too much of it.

Some of my sugar snap peas are poking through the ground on the north side of the garden! Two of the first planting by the compost are coming up. I hope that the bunnies stay away.

I have some iris buds on the plants on the south side of the house. One of John Hall's iris is blooming, but his always bloom way earlier than mine. Not much for buds along the fence. Too many weeds and not enough sunshine I think.

I planted some grass seed in the front and where the forsythia was in the backyard.

I want to map out more of the garden to know what I want to buy. I would like to plant:
- more tomatoes
- more pepper plants
- Brussels sprouts
- green beans
- black beans
- garbanzo beans
- pumpkins
- basil (use the plant that I have? That wintered over)
- dill (have seeds)
- tomatillos (Louise thinks that I will have lots of them come up in the yard anyway so I'll hold of buying them maybe. I didn't see any at Suncliff) I used to get Brussels sprouts at Sands. I will need to look for some elsewhere in town now.

I'm not sure if I really have room for all of that. I will plant more vegetables in the front bed. I will need to get some more soil if I want to plant on the west side of the yard. I need to look where Todd cut out the branch from the maple tree, I may have less shade in an area than I thought that I did.

I have tons of tiger lilies coming up. The bush with the big flowers that I am drawing a blank on the name... where we moved it to on the other side of the rain barrel is coming out. Hydrangea! I'm happy that it survived it's move. Nothing else under the boys window has seemed to survive.

So far this year, I have bought two hanging plants. I went around and collected all of the empty hanging pots that I had. I had way too many. I dumped all of the excess soil in a bucket and mixed it up and planted some of the annuals in those. I still have one or two that I may try and hang in the back porch but I need hangers.

Everything that I bought this morning is planted! Now more planning before I go and buy more. I am thinking that I can wait until Suncliff vegetables go on sale maybe, but really it doesn't make that much difference in price between .69 and .50 or 35. Planning is actually more important in what I'm buying.