I had bought bags o' roots from Wal-mart over a month ago: "Plant now for summer blooms!" the bags proclaimed. I bought two bags of three roots each of tall phlox, two bags of rudbeckia roots, and a bag each of 5 stargazer lilies and day lilies. The lilies had started to sprout, so I may have luck with them. The rudbeckia (black-eyed susan type) I couldn't figure out. They were a soft tangle of strings which I suppose was some sort of root system. I just jammed them into the ground. The garden phlox ... well, I think they're dead, Jim, but I planted them anyway.
All this went into the plot that my friend Bobbie tilled. It will hold landscaping, but I figure in the fall once the veggies are out, I'll add some spring bulbs and the like. But now we have this:
In a corner I have some herbs, and I hope the mint, oregano, thyme and chives will take off. Well, it's a foregone conclusion that the mint will. There are 2 Mr. Stripey tomatoes, 6 WV Hillbilly toms, two tomatillos and one Japanese eggplant. Just for giggles I tossed a packet of coneflower seeds and nasturtium seeds into the plot. It's up to them to germinate.I also dug up the little bed around the side of the house that I used last year. The soil was very easy to fork up. I had added garden soil last year, and it was obviously very rich since the dandelions I removed looked like they came from the freakin' Precambrian - leaves well over 2' tall, I shit you not. I was waiting for a VW-bus-size dragonfly to show up. I put 6 red bell pepper plants, 3 more Mr. Stripey toms, and just tossed a handful of half-runner bean seeds and sunflower seeds therein.
Then there was the yellowjacket who insisted on harassing me the whole time. But he didn't sting me.
Meanwhile, late last week I thought I'd already killed my nifty hanging cuke, because I had neglected to water it. So I fortified a gallon watering can with Miracle-gro and doused it good. And doused it again today. It seems to have made a recovery, and even has little cukes coming on already!
Lest my planted herbs fail, I have some potted:
Well, I'm not responsible for the basil ... a parishioner had a load and gave it away at church a couple weeks ago. :)Finally, I love my little pot of lettuces:
Even Gleason decided lettuce was good ... as a toy. He got this leaf from a head I had bought at the grocery store and had draining in the sink.
2 Loads of fill dirt:
Love that tiny little cuke! And Gleason and his leaf!
Good for you, Janis!
I've been a sloth this year. Nonetheless, the vestigal white garden is doing its thing. I did plant a Better Boy tomato as well as a grape tomato plant. (I'm still afraid of vegetable gardening so that's it.)
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