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It's been raining nearly daily for two weeks now. Just a couple of days of nice weather then it started up again.
Vegetable Garden: Yesterday my husband weeded the vegetable garden, and I worked on the herbs and flowers. We're also learning little by little what seeds to put in the ground when. We are still pretty new at this and just expect everything to come up whenever we put it in the ground. Haha Newbie gardeners here, yep. So we'll be planting our brussels sprouts, spinach, more carrots, leeks, cauliflower and some other late fall/wintery harvest veggies later in the season. We're learning!
Herb Garden: My german chamomile did not come up. :( So I have more seeds ready to plant. If they don't come up this time around I won't try again until next year. Yesterday my husband harvested some cilantro to put in the shrimp fried rice I made. It's still not fully grown but the flavor was strong and good.
Our herb garden - the bare spots are where the herbs I planted did not make it. Chamomile, sweet basil, oregano, italian parsley and lavender didn't make it. Bad seeds? Not sure. There's a bit of shade from the nearby tree in the afternoon - I wonder if that's problematic?
Flower Garden: Wildflowers and other mixes of seeds planted last month are coming up nicely, but slowly, since there's not been much sun. I have some seeds from Burpee that is a mailbox/lampost mix. I'm not sure if it's too late to put them in or not but I'm going to try. I put in thumbergia and morning glory and wow are they slow to grow. Also most peoples' clematis are growing strong and flowering now. The one I put in is still a little vine. I guess I'll have to wait and see what it does next year.
Today we replanted some seeds. Certain things didn't take well.
Here's the current layout, with explanation:
Row + Vegetable:
* = harvestable
Zucchini+Canteloupe a few days ago. Has been weeded and looks nice now!
1: Zucchini - nice and full
2: Canteloupe - not where I wanted to put this; husband popped it in there - full
3. Transplanted zucchini from row 1 - doing well
4. * Mesclun mix - is coming up nicely now and we've eaten twice from this
5. Summer squash - coming up
6. Pepper Mix - put these seeds in today
7. Tomato Plant + chili plant - purchased from Home Depot last week
8. Head lettuce - still little; not coming up well
9. Tomato - put in again today from seed; other seedlings were pulled out by Mr. Groundhog
10. Carrot - only one grew from our first planting; replanted this row today
11. -saving for later season-
12. Cukes - sprouting nicely
Side rows:
Sugar Pumpkins - yay coming up nicely
Watermelon - only got one plant
French canteloupe - coming up well
From small plantlings:
Our grape vine - dying
Blueberry bush - ugly and dying
We're really not sure how to get nice blueberry bushes planted; I'll look into this when I have time. The concord grape vine was just for fun. Darned animals keep tasting it.
Vegetables
Getting a little late in the season, but I had to do some more planting today. None of the watermelons grew (well we see only one plant coming up) and none of the sugar pumpkins. It's too bad. I planted pumpkins once again, but maybe the seeds are old/bad. I had no more watermelon seeds, and planted these heirloom melons instead.
I also put in nasturtiums in between some of the rows (we have lots of bunnies around here). My husband's first planting of corn was dug up by squirrels; he put them in on a different side and now they're not being bothered; hope to have some sweet corn this August.
Flowers
Put in two peony roots in the front and some marigolds (from seed) along the side of the walkway. Also put in low-rise sunflower bush from seeds.
Planted rows of different types of sunflowers in the back, close to the corn, and also put in a variety of bulbs along the semi-shady area of the house.
I think we're done putting things in for the season, now we just wait for everything to grow!
Here's a pic of our zucchini. One day we could see nothing. The next day we saw these beautiful strong leaves already sprouted. This was last week.
- Wow pictures are just not working correctly - could be this new template. :( Here's a link for now.
