I watered the garden as well as i could yesterday morning as i hoped to do, so it shouldn't really need it today.
I took some pictures of things here and there and for my records i'll post them.
I love seeing how fast the plant can grow once this type of weather hits.
Those berry plants i saw on the roadside... i did get to stop and photo them:
Its too bad they are inedible, there's so many of them.
Not sure anyone else can make out the beetles, they are the tiny, white, somewhat blurry spots... there were about 30 of them in the trap within minutes. I'm sure there are hundreds in there by now.
I have green tomatoes! These are Polfast.
Swiss Chard recovering... i think i need to pick some.
Slim Jim eggplant. The leaf color is so deep its almost black. The camera did not capture the color.
I have been thinking that the beds that currently hold overgrown flowers might be better used as veggie or berry plots... if i do decide to go in that direction, i think this plant would be a great edible/ornamental candidate.
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Provider bush bean flowers
Finoccio
Rosemary
Sunburst patty pan squash, these are really yummy and best when small, so it won't be long before these are ready to collect.
Blogger is uploading these photos extraordinarily slow today....
Birdhouse gourd.... i think it is going for world domination here.
Watermelon, finally starting to get somewhere. I forget which one this is... the others aren't as big as this.
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If these flowers set fruit there should be enough time for them to ripen to eating stage before summer is over. We usually run out of time with melons so i hope this year is going to be a good one.
Borage. This plant has struggled to grow, its no more than 8" tall, but it has a flower!
Marechal Foch in bloom. Fascinating teeny flowers.
Edelweiss making an unexpected comeback.
The big tree hydrangea budding up.
Marigolds from seed... finally blooming. These are in a large pot at the front door, there are others scattered throughout the veggie garden. They are also beginning to bloom. The potted ones are Aurora Mix from Park Seed.
This rose came with the house. Its been hit pretty hard by the Japanese Beetles, but it manages to bloom nicely anyway. I think i found the name tag that goes with it, but i don't remember for sure what the name is. I think it might have been Mary Washington ... its some historical American woman's name at any rate.
.Purple Smokebush. I need to move it someplace it can spread out. The silky dogwood is crowding it out. I might take cuttings of the dogwood and then use an herbicide on the rest. I can't dig it out like i want to.
Not exactly sure what this is, i tried to get it ID'd at Gardenweb and i think they guessed "Nettle-leaved Bellflower" but this plant looks more hefty than the pictures i have been seeing online, but i think i agree.
Yes, the picture is upside down. I couldn't reach through the raspberry canes (they belong to the nice neighbors but the plants have totally invaded my flowerbed) to get a picture any other way.
I bought some landscape fabric yesterday. When the hot weather lets up i hope to start digging up the flowerbeds. I'll have to use herbicide on some of the ornamental grasses that have overstayed their welcome and overgrown their boundaries. Then i can use the landscape fabric to prevent things from getting so darn crazy so quickly. It only took one year (the year i spent on the couch in recovery) for the gardens to totally get out of control. I don't ever want to see that happen again.
Well, that is pretty much it. The rest of the day will consist of house work. I might take a roller brush with herbicide on it to the aisles in my garden. The weeds are harder to pull from there because the earth is packed. Some of the weeds are trying to go to seed and i can't allow that.
2 comments:
Agh! Hurry! Run out there and get rid of that JP trap!!!! Take it about a quarter mile away and hang it. Preferably in the yard of a child predator, you can google their locations.
I fell for those years ago. They worked so well that the neighbor began buying them and putting them in my yard as well. You see, all the beetles left all the other yards and their produce, and came to mine! It worked out great for everyone but me.
Gorgeous pictures! Gorgeous garden! I have not seen a honeysuckle like that. Very pretty.
A rollerbrush. Cool idea. I'm really good at spraying without getting the good plants, but that idea will come in handy, I'm sure.
That's a nice view out past your drying line. I don't remember seeing that way before.
You have such a beautiful variety of plants and you are so skilled at cuttings. I wish I was. We went blueberry picking on Monday and how I wished I could have cuttings from there to grow. I'd likely kill them anyhow. I think I was spoiled as a child by poplar and willow branches that sent out miles of roots if you only gave them a bucket with a couple of inches of water and then ignored them completely.
~Faith
I have hit or miss success with cuttings. There are whole plant groups that thumb their noses at me. Other things end up coming out of my ears. Usually its the most wanted plants that defy my efforts. Or it seems that way ;O)
I must be lucky with that JB trap. They are still all over those porcelainberry vines, but they have abandoned my grapes now- which they were getting into before the trap. they are leaving the roses alone as well. The grapes and the trap are on opposite sides of the house and the roses are in the front while the JB trap is in the back. I'll keep an eye on it. I have caught enough to fill the bottom half of the bag so far.
If i find i need to move it i know where it would do best. Our neighbors who moved away, their house is empty and they did no gardening. It won't harm anyone or anything over there.
I wish i could get a clear shot of the garden from a straight on view...without the antenna, the clothesline, the shed, the stack of painted fence panels under the tarp...lol
Thanks for the encouraging words! :o)
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