Thursday, May 28, 2015

May 28th - update

Ate first sugar snap peas from peas I planted on the south side of the house.

Lots of other peas blooming. The "bush" style ones are pretty big and should probably be climbing something. There are some pods on those as well. Their blooms are purple.

Valentine radish are needing to be thinned so they can actually make some fruit.

The wild daisies that I dug up from up the street are blooming in my back yard.

Clematis is blooming too - all three of them.

Lots of dianthus are blooming too!

Monday, May 11, 2015

Garden Update

What's blooming?
Columbine in two different pink colors
Iris - even along the back fence
Peony is just about ready
Phlox is just about finished
Two hanging baskets of annuals were purchased this weekend
Chives
Thyme

Some of the peas should be blooming soon.

We planted a lot of plants this weekend
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Zucchini
Peppers
Rosemary
basil
Planted some beets as well.

Want to get pumpkins started.
Need to plant black beans
Green beans that my mom planted are coming up
They were planted in a lot of mulch and I've had to push a lot of the seeds down.

We dug up a lot of sunflowers and black eyed susans that we gave away yesterday so there is more room in the garden.
I bought 7 bags of top soil and 7 bags of manure and two bags of potting soil. All but one bag of potting soil has been distributed through the yard. I think the last bag will go next to the rain barrel in the front of the house.

I planted impatients along the front of the porch where we used to have bushes. I need to get a few more of those.

Besides pumpkin and I would like to get some Brussels Sprouts and I think I will have a pretty full garden.

There are lots of volunteer tomato plants that I don't know if I'm going to do anything about those.
I have potatoes coming up.

Planted one yellow tomato. Six Roma, two celebrity and a grape and sweet 100 tomato so I hope we get lots of tomatoes.

Planted like 8 pepper plants and one jalepeno. Four broccoli plants and four or six cucumber plants.

The two back box gardens will still have room for summer crops.