YAY. Now if they will just all grow and make abundant veggies for us. My veggie garden is all raised beds and containers. I have 11 raised beds, but 1 1/2 are under black plastic to help kill weeds, and lay fallow this season. I have one bed of Egyptian walking onions, 1 bed of garlic, 1/2 bed of white onions, radishes scattered all over, 1 bed of watermelon, 3 beds of corn & beans mixed, 3 rows of pumpkins, 1 row of cukes, 1/2 row of lima beans, 3 buckets with canary melons, 2 tubs and 1 trash can with tomatoes & onions, 2 tubs with canna lilies and a pineapple plant, and 2 beds of potatoes. My black raspberries and strawberries are fine, if I can just keep my horse OUT of them! I need more strawberry plants. I added some garlic to the berry patch, and some marigolds. Maybe they will discourage my horse? That stinker pulled up a strawberry plant and ate 1/2 of it before I could rescue it and replant it. I have been trying to get my flowers planted too, so I have been scattering marigold and zinnia seeds around, even in with the veggies. I have loads of perennials, but like some annuals in with them. I also planted a pot of aegeratums, added marigolds and creeping sedums to other big tubs, some gomphrena globosa or something like that, the pink cosmos have reseeded, the pink gladioulus are up. There is a mystery plant in one flower bed. I thought it might be some fennel, but it doesnt look right for fennel. Maybe it is something I planted there last year? The stuff I planted in that bed last year never grew. It is all feathery, and has buds now. When it blooms I will post a picture of it, and see if anyone knows what it is. There is nothing else here that resembles it, so I am hoping it is something I planted last year. I planted several kinds of flowers there, and cant remember all of them. One was larkspur, but the others ??? Maybe some stock ? I wish it would grow for me. I have a few more zinnia and marigold and lavender seeds to plant yet. Oh, I have to get some potting soil and plant those Stella d'Oro seeds that Cayuga gave me too. And the blue Himalyan poppy seeds. I have those in the freezer until next week. I want to get some fresh potting mix, so I do not get weeds in the pots. [or I could sterlize some compost in the oven?]
AAnightowl, Very good. Sounds very nice. We haven't even tilled let alone get anything planted yet. It will happen soon enough. Hope to see pics as these things begin to grow. That's a cool thing to see.
Thanks. Except for the taters, onions, garlic and berries, it is all just brown dirt at the moment. A lot of perennials are blooming though.
AA, For that mystery plant that doesn't look quite right for fennel...rub the foliage between your fingers? what does it smell like? Is it dill by chance. It looks similar, but weedier than fennel. My fennel is just coming up and is bushy. I have it in green and bronze, it smells and tastes reminiscent of licorice.
No, it is not dill either. I didnt even plant any dill. It has no aroma to it. The buds resemble lupines of some sort, but the foilage is wrong for lupines too.. [I think]. I have some anise seeds that I want to plant, not sure where though.
Good to hear that you are getting stuff planted there N.O. I have a few things planted and will put the beans in the ground today in-between the showers. It does my gardening heart good to hear that you are getting your things planted. Are you late getting things planted this year, or about on time?
I am late for here. We did have some late cold fronts, and I do it all myself and did not get the work done as fast as I would like. Our average last frost date is April 15th or so. We had some light frost into May this year. I dig my raised beds by hand so far. I made them so I would not have dig the whole garden plot by hand [50' x 70'] which is a huge amount of work to do without a tiller or plow. My garden spot had gone to weeds for a number of years, and back in 07 or 08, the weeds were 7 ft tall. That was when I decided to try making raised beds and to make my garden easier on me.
My kids came home from the grocery store recently with small yellow melons shaped sort of like a football. He says they are "canary" melons. I never saw them before. I did plant the seeds, and some of them are growing. Maybe it will make some. I did not taste any, it looks funky to me, but he wanted me to grow them. That digging is DEFINITELY hard work! I take my time doing it too.
I posted pics of my mystery flowers in the plant ID section. The flowers are purple, and resemble larkspur, but the foilage seems different. Or you can see them on my garden pages.
