Garden Club V: Herbs, Vegetables, and Blooms

[Cayla]

Finally! The weather is favorable enough to begin gardening season. I plan to begin either this evening or tomorrow afternoon. I will start with cleaning out the front flower bed, and planting some annuals.

[RJDiogenes]

The little yellow flowers are popping up in the pit behind my Mother's house.

[Madeliaette]

brussels sprputs corn peas all going in now.....i shall plant beans carrot and more prarsnip soon....then mooli and...its growing season!

the poly tunnel is filled with lettuce and potato, seeds becoming seedling, a few cabbage/tomatoes/chives/mint/radish...

flower wise, i have bluebells and grape hyacinths and am about to have flowering onions....and L has daisies and buttercups exploding on her lawns....

[RJDiogenes]

How are the frogs doing?

[Cayla]

After work, I planted petunias in the front flower bed, and in two pots for the front porch. I also put a couple of the house plants outside for the season. I will put the other half of the plants outside before I leave for work. I also planted basil in my herb window box, and added another strawberry plant to the strawberry patch behind the house.

[Cayla]

I planted some snap dragons in the front bed, and new guinea impatients along the back of the house.

[scottydog]

^^ That sounds lovely

We're sad because some critter has eaten all our tiny new figs that were growing on our fig tree

[Cayla]

I spent two days working the landscaping job. I'm only 2/3 done planting what Mike and I had purchased for the property. I'm hoping to go back tomorrow evening or Thursday evening to finish. This is what my friend and I planted...

8 daylilies
8 Coreopsis
4 flats of petunias
1 flat of snap dragons
8 salvia
2 shrubs
4 dianthus
8 plants of which I forgot the name of it.

I still have 16 lavender, 6 arborvitae, and 4 dianthus to plant.

[RJDiogenes]

^^ That's a lot of planting. No wonder your knee is hurt.

We're sad because some critter has eaten all our tiny new figs that were growing on our fig tree

What kind of critter? Maybe one of those ultrasonic devices can keep it away.

The purple bush is blooming at my Mother's house:

[scottydog]

This is what my friend and I planted...

Good God, no wonder your knee is shot. That's an amazingly high number of things to plant!

[Madeliaette]

looks like an ornamental peony RJ...
i have done very little due to a week or so of rain....sposed to clear up starting today and have a week or so of dry...so it will be back to planting out brussels sprout seedlings and corn and peas....seeing what was eaten when slug season poured out the cuds, harevsting rhubarb, and prepping beds for the next crops down the plot. at home i have lettuce chive mint radish in the poly tunnel, alng with a half dozen or more spud tubs and tons of seedling. in the yard, flowering onions and bluebells are giving color

[Cayla]

RJ, that is a peony. Those bloom in May/June.

The plants in the window boxes are happy. I'll take pictures this weekend.

[RJDiogenes]

looks like an ornamental peony RJ...

That does sound familiar.

at home i have lettuce chive mint radish in the poly tunnel

How's the poly tunnel doing? Are the cats staying away?

RJ, that is a peony. Those bloom in May/June.

That settles it. It's a peony. It must have just bloomed during the week, because I didn't notice it last week.

The plants in the window boxes are happy. I'll take pictures this weekend.

I can't wait to see pictures of your balcony hideaway.

[scottydog]

We have veggies appearing on our plants -- small green tomatoes & peppers

[Cayla]

Yesterday, I purchased two cherry tomato plants, 2 gardenia, and one lantana. I plant to pot these, and repot some of the houseplants, this afternoon.