In the Garden

67°f/19.4°C, breezy and mostly clear, but clouds moving in as I write this. Put in 2 hours in the gardens and stringtrimming.  It was 80° by the time I finished up at 10am.

I went out yesterday evening and took photos in the vegetable garden. Not the best light for it, but here they are.

This is the middle section.  In front right is a row of gladiolas and marigolds, along with a few radishes.

Then onions, a mix of red, yellow and white, then Tenderette bush beans, and beets and kale. The back is planted with the wax and the purple beans and a row of flower seeds, but none of these are up yet. 

This is the front end of the garden. I have a few cheery-type tomatoes in here, a row of dill and a row of basil.

The dill and basil are still tiny.

I only planted one hill of yellow squash and one of zucchini. Last year I planted 2 of each and we were overrun with squash.

The girls were curious! I have to think about having them here. They are a bit....smelly.  Not terrible, but I think we need to move them further up the garden. I am a little worried about the smell come high summer.

The broccoli and cabbage patch. Some plants have holes in the leaves. I treated them with diatomaceous earth, and am watching to see if I need to do something different.

The rattlesnake beans are on this arch over the brassicas.

My teeny tiny onions, started from seed! This photo is much zoomed. They actually look like thin new grass.

The lettuce patch, green ice and red sails, with radishes in between. Above that is the kale the cat dug up, and spinach.  Somewhere, either here or in the middle section, I planted bok choi, but can't remember where!

And above the kale and spinach, a row of carrots and leeks (the leeks disnt get in the photo, but they're tiny anyway), the peppers, then a row of ornamental corn. That's horseradish in the top left corner. Running at right angles to this area is two rows of sweet corn and the purple asparagus patch. The asparagus is completely overrun with ground ivy, which we will have to deal with soon.

Looking down through the garden. That first arch is where I just planted lima beans.

A peek at Larry's garden, complete with Mr. Blowy on duty to keep critters away. The front row is onions, then a row of potatoes, then 3 rows of tomatoes, and 2 rows of sweet corn.

The cucumbers are on the first arch. They are struggling.

These, on the upper side of the arch look okay though. Under this arch I just planted the rest of the onion sets I had, along with more lettuce, and radishes 

Just wanted to show this interesting plant. It's a type of henbane, an ornamental variety. It looks pretty with the Mexican primroses.

And last, my only David Austyn rose, 5 years old and nowhere near the large shrub it was supposed to be. But the blooms have the most heavenly fragrance.  The chair protects it from Larry's weedeatee and the dogs!

That's about it for the veggie gardens. Now, we need Mother Nature to cooperate,  and she can be a very fickle lady!

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