With more than 6 inches of rain over the last month, the garden is having a hard time getting started! We finally have a few days with some warm sunshine, so I expect everything will go crazy. Here are a few pictures to show you how things are doing today!
The dogwood trees in the front yard are finally in bloom and the blossoms are turning from an off yellow/white to a brighter white.
On the patio, I’ve pulled the first batch of radishes and replanted with new seed.
The lettuces…Little Gem and Black Seeded Simpson…are ready to be thinned (and eaten!). Yum!
Bert has been thinning the onions and eating them! Here’s how big they are now:
The cherry tomato plants are doing well, with blossoms showing their color!
Up in the garden on the hill, the established plants like lavender and echinacea are doing well.
However, the seeds for carrots, beans and zucchini are barely coming up…just too much rain. I’ve had to add some bean seeds to the rows because the birds were picking them out of the ground as they tried to sprout.
So far, one tiny zucchini plant has made it out of the ground! Somehow, the weeds are doing very well!
One final group of seeds/plants I had not included before…Bert started pumpkin seeds a month or two ago and decided to plant them right beside the wood pile…no fence at all. I hope they get big quick so the rabbits don’t see it as their own salad bar!
Hopefully, with the sun finally coming out, the garden will do well. Enjoy!
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