Mulching Part I

Saturday, March 23: started mulching

 
Sunday, March 24: did some more. After about five hours total work there is a little dent in the full-size (5 square yard) load.

  

Monday, March 25: seeded tomatoes and seeds from a flower (need to look up what exactly it is) that I collected from a garden around the hotel where we stayed while visiting Zion National Park last summer.

March catch-up

March 20: mulch delivered
March 17: seeded lettuce mix, caraway, arugula, parsley. Planted second part of sweet onions. Turned the soil in a few places.
March 10: cleaned up front yard. Planted pansies in planter on the porch and rhododendron in side yard. Planted broccoli, Brussel sprouts and about half of sweet onions bunch.

Digging up Spearmint

About 7 pm I decided to go out and dig a little bit the part between raspberry bush and where butterfly bush used to be. Spearmint has spread all over there and I need to get rid of it. Halfway thru I pulled up some perennial that I must have planted last fall. I have no recollection of it. Resolved to record things I do in the garden in more detail. Kept digging until it was too dark to see the roots I need to pick out.

Garden in Early July

Early July is green beans time! One day I picked about two pounds of green beens. I've been sharing them with my neighbors. I've also picked some cucumbers and pulled small beets.

 Front yard flowers

 Lords and Ladies in sideyard

 Backyard veggie/flower garden

 Cucumbers

 Parsley gone to seed

 Garlic is ready to be dug up amongst eggplant

 A little bit of everything

 PIcked my first tomato today, July 9

 ...and it was added to salad.

Bumblebees

Early June Garden

These pictures were taken more than a week ago in early June.

Front yard

 My "experimental" fingerling potatoes seem to be doing well. They are near blooming butterfly bush.

 Bumble bees on butterfly weed.

 My peppers are not doing so well... for now

Broccoli and Brussels sprouts (Reminder to myself, do not get broccoli next year. They do not earn their keep)

 Tomatoes I stared from seed. Lots of growing still ahead...

 First green beans and broccoli

 My favorite herb--dill!

 Spearmint bunch

Late May Bouquet

Fewer few, butterfly weed, rose champion, astilbe, love-in-the-mist seed pods.