Hi greeneyes and everyone!
Sneaking in the back of the class, here.
As most of you know, we were under the weather a bit this past spring, so opted for another year without a lot of hands-on gardening.
Today was just gorgeous, and although hot, it wasn’t unbearable. We felt up to doing a little bit to scratch the garden itch.
This spring we had some volunteer tame plantains growing. We also have a boatload of them wild in the yard. The seeds on the volunteer were ready to harvest, so I did. The seeds on the wild ones are not ready yet.
I cleaned up an area where I had stacked a bunch of empty pots, ready for new inhabitants. I had been wanting to get some compost sacks for some time, so we got the truck out and went to get some. We went to the box garden store and found some.
While there, we saw some lovely Greek oregano, German thyme, and Bee Balm.
I had had a good stand of oregano and thyme, but this year, for some reason they did not come back. I was delighted to be able to grab these to quickly replace those. I had not ever had Bee Balm and so will enjoy watching it attract the butterflies and humming birds.
We decided even though it’s late, we would enjoy a nice splash of color for the next few months, so we obtained some petunias and echinacea. The stand of echinacea which up until last year was really happy just have been disappointing this year. They are really scraggy and there are some deformed leaves and sometimes deformed flower heads. I am inclined to think a virus may have gotten to them. I plan to place the new ones in a different area of the yard.
The strawberries are still happy. They had over weathered last winter. A friend of mine gave me a replacement cutting of hensnchicks and an aloe vera plant. The Christmas cactus is also hanging in there.
So there you have it. We’re just plugging away here on the Oklahoma Plain! I hope all is well with all of you!
Sounds lovely! :)
We had the last of the broccoli, steamed, for dinner. Only ONE worm - but no one but me knows about THAT, LOL!
New potatoes with butter and fresh parsley from the garden.
A pork loin, but it was no one we personally knew (for a change), LOL!
More zukes and cukes than I know what to do with - so I have to get cracking on THAT this upcoming week. Way too much kale, too. Yeesh!
Beans are just starting to bear, so another week for them, and I pruned the tomato plants (from the bottom to get rid of blighted leaves) and sprayed them all with copper (organic) to slow down the early blight that always happens.
Rain late tonight and on and off tomorrow - which we need.
I’m glad you could still find some bedding plants - the nurseries around here will have their fall Mums out in another 2 weeks!
Wish I could say I miss my job at Jung’s, but I don’t. I miss my friends, but looking back, I don’t know how I survived TEN YEARS of those InSaNe CrAzY Spring Seasons! :)
Good to hear from you. Glad you are feeling more like a little gardening.