Garden update
The weather was perfect for garden chores.. cool, cloudy with sunbreaks..
We got the tomato plants in the ground, pepper plants - Anaheim and banana peppers.
Seedling's (I actually started seeds successfully this year!)
Pickling cuke seedlings IN
Pumpkin seedlings IN
Okra seedlings IN
Hollyhocks IN
Seeds sewn..
Carrots
icicle radishes
red and white stripe radishes
Kale 3 kinds
butter and romaine lettuce and spicy microgreens
Sunflowers
Calendula
Peas
Beans
Butterfly weed
Nasturtiums
Started earlier..
Potatoes have popped up
Garlic has sprung through
Dahlias, are about 6" high
The herb bed is doing good (except the basil, always the basil craps out)
Salmon berries are making salmon berries.
White currant has currants.
Apple espalier had tons of blooms, c'mon apples!
Transplanted the fig tree & it lived! 🤗
Transplanted the flowering currant and it lived.
The olive tree is next..
Raspberry canes have come back, after getting chopped down.
Hops are about 8' tall already.
The weeds! Oh the weeds are going gangbusters, & a full time side hustle.🌱🌱🌱
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The feeder fish we plopped in the pond to keep mosquitos away are thriving, and alive and already much bigger. 🐟🐟🐟
Everything-soil.. is already quite dry for this early..but tonight the clouds unleashed for a good solid hour of heavy rain..phew!
Flowers, for the bee friends..
New lupine planted, and snapdragons, and agastache, and marigolds, and lilies, and poppies, and phlox, and and a bunch of other stuff I don't remember, it took me 2 minutes to remember hollyhocks name...
That's it for the garden update
Now to keep the weeds at bay and water..simple right?
Maybe.
Oh, and keep the damn chickens out of the garden.
Chris has devised an elaborate fencing system to keep the girls in the front 1/3 of the yard. .
I have only accidently ripped it down once trying to get into the backyard.. the other time must've been a bear. 😆
