What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Yeah, same has happened here. The bird ran behind something and I left when the crew started stalking it. It was a baby grackle, I hate those birds.

Me too. Cow birds too. Which is probably how the baby sparrow was out of the nest.

 

[Smokerbill]

To all of you florally inclined people, does anyone know what this flower is? I think it's pretty cool, having three different petal colors on a single flower.

 

[Smokerbill]

I'm done gardening for the day. In addition the peppers and butternut squash I planted earlier, I planted 3 hills of zucchini squash and a 7 foot row of Provider green bush beans. I decided to wait a couple weeks before planting the yellow wax beans so the bean crop is staggered.

It's 80 degrees outside now, and 70 degrees in the house. I left all the windows open last night so it would cool of, then closed it up to keep the cool inside today.



The butternut squash are planted where the boards are sticking out of the ground. I'll train them to grow over the side of the raised bed and onto the ground so they have plenty of room to spread out.

Behind the squash, a row of 5 pepper plants, and behind that, red lettuce, and behind the lettuce, carrots. A pair of tomato plants are in the corners, left hand side.


Two more peppers in a different bed, near the 2nd year curly parsley plant that will bloom and attract pollinators.



The row of rattlesnake beans next to the trellis...



Three hills of zucchini near the rattlesnake beans. I'll train them to grow out over the side of the raised bed too.



The row of Provider green beans...



The tomatoes I set out yesterday. Determinate on left side, indeterminate on right side with ropes to support them as they grow, like I did last year.


Peas haven't reached the trellis to their right yet...


I packed more leaves around the potato plants today...


Onions and garlic...


Dill. I haven't planted my dill yet! Maybe tomorrow.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We called them johnny jump ups.
We have quite a bit to plant still.

 

[WthrLady]

To all of you florally inclined people, does anyone know what this flower is? I think it's pretty cool, having three different petal colors on a single flower.

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viola - johnny jump up

 

[Smokerbill]

We called them johnny jump ups.
We have quite a bit to plant still.

viola - johnny jump up

Thanks! It must be a perennial then. I've been living here over two years and I didn't plant it! There have been all sorts of unknown-to-me flowers popping up around here. I need to take more pics for identification I guess.

 

[21hens-incharge]

To all of you florally inclined people, does anyone know what this flower is? I think it's pretty cool, having three different petal colors on a single flower.

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I LOVE those! They self seed quite well. I had a pot of them on the patio table and have enjoyed these growing in the cracks for years now.

 

[Sueby]

I love johnny jump ups.

I got all the peppers & flowers planted. Back still feels pretty good, I love my new spinal cord stimulator.

It's chilly here, I'm sitting here hoping the pellet stove will come on. Have to bring the tomatoes in & cover the peppers.

I leave for vacation in 4 days! Me & my bestie are going to Vegas to see the Dead at the Sphere. I'm so excited. DH get's to hold the fort down while I visit his family (they live just outside of the city).

 

[WthrLady]

The paste tomatoes I had to replant May 1st, I just up potted. I'll do it again in 14 days, and deliver them the 1st weekend in June.
Not sure I'll bother next year, except for myself.

 

[Sally PB]

Hubby has put about 150 gallons of water into the water cube up by the heavy soil garden. I can water the other garden with the hose, but that one is too far away from the house.

He says, "July Hubby will thank May hubby for doing it how."