Running behind in activities partly due to very wet weather and partly due to other priorities that have needed attention on weekends when I have the time to devote to gardening. I did manage to get some plants and decided to create a lavender bed using several different cultivars of lavandula and two lavandins. These plants are from Goodwin Creek and they sent some great advise on amending the soil. We found quartz granite grit at Farm and Fleet to help make the soil more porous and looked at several different sands at Home Depot to use as mulch. The builder's sand seems to be the best with the least clumping. All in all there are 8 different cultivars that we will get planted this week hoping that it continues to dry out a bit. In the center of the octagon shaped bed is a buddlia with white flowers. I did get allysum seeds, but not sure if there is enough germination time.
Veggies and seeds got planted yesterday. It was HOT! Crop rotation good this year. Melon bed with 2 hills "minnesota midgets"--a 4 inch in diameter melon. Fun! Put in a rhubarb plant that I got at the MG sale. Here is a list of what I planted:
Tomatoes--2
Peppers--2
Ky Wonder Pole Beans
Anasazi Beans (pole)
Basil--2 cultivars
Radishes--2 kinds
Carrots
Beets
Leeks
Zucchini
Broccoli
Red cabbage
Japanese Climbing cucumbers
Lettuce mix
Lima beans
Still have kale and corn to plant
I made a round raised bed for sorghum as the hub ringed by Hopi black dye sunflowers. This should tower at 9 to 10 feet!
We also got a new shade bed in under the krimson king maple that we mulched around last year. Several new hostas, geranium, huechera and others. New echinacea in the butterfly bed--a new hybrid. Transplanted zebra grass behind the red twigged dogwoods. Cleared out the spearmint to make room for a new orange mint that I bought annuals for window boxes, pots and cart and got the cart planted. Purple, orange, silver and lime green are the colors this year.
Debby's Garden and the prairie garden are left. I did weed the lupines that reseeded wonderfully, but were inundated with dandelions. Interesting how the annuals reseed and move around in the bed.
Sounds like you've been busy!
ReplyDeleteIn looking at my own flower gardens, I may need to move some things around a bit to create more space for some of the more vigorous plants. The puny hostas I rescued from behind the Bush of Doom are really growing like gangbusters, which I didn't expect.
I also love to watch the reseeding annuals move about. I have daisies in the side garden, which I am not sure were ever actually planted - they may be volunteers, and they move a bit every year. :)
Ahhhh, the Green Ones are so appreciative of a wee bit of notice and care.
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