The spring vegetables box that got started on April 8th (Easter Sunday) is now starting to look fun with seedlings in just about every square. This is when things start to get exciting. Their growth is noticeable from one day to the next.
It's been a fun chore to pick out the seeds from the Chinese Elm trees in the neighborhood that fall in our SFG boxes. They're so pesky this time of the year. Years ago, I lived next to an old couple who enjoyed flower gardening in a smaller scale. The old man would be seen vacuuming the elm seeds with his Electrolux out in their driveway, vacuuming the flower bed. I thought it was comical back then, but now I think he was brilliant. I got the paving blocks brought over from the abandoned garden plot to keep my shoes from getting muddy when I water the boxes. This has been a "build as you go" kind of project all along.
The "Alaska" peas seedlings. I planted two to a hole. Almost all of them successfully germinated, so I'll have to thin them when they get a little bigger. I just realized that the recommended spacing for peas in the SFG method is 8... not 9. XD Oh, well. (I guess I can pluck out the center ones from each square?)
My husband got the frame for the third box ready. We'll put a weed barrier on the bottom and it will be growing a crop of corn for us this season. There will be a fourth box of summer vegetables. I'm still waiting for the local nursery's veggies to grow a little bigger. I checked their green house yesterday and their tomato, pepper, and eggplant were still tiny baby seedlings. Technically, our area's average last day of frost is April 29. There has been some years with killing frosts as late as the first week of May, so I'm going to play it safe with those tender summer veggies and wait a little longer.
Bridal Veil shrub coming into bloom. Our cats love to curl up under this shrub, hidden away from others, cool from the hot sun. Speaking of hot, it was almost 90 degrees yesterday. The weather man on the news said it's about 20 degrees above the normal average daily high for this time of the year.
And because it's been so warm, my irises have started blooming about a week ago. This is a rhizome I got from a friend years ago and I don't know the name of the variety, but I have many around the house. XD I did a better job of keeping the weed under control in my perennials bed last season, and they seem to be doing much better.
It's been a fun chore to pick out the seeds from the Chinese Elm trees in the neighborhood that fall in our SFG boxes. They're so pesky this time of the year. Years ago, I lived next to an old couple who enjoyed flower gardening in a smaller scale. The old man would be seen vacuuming the elm seeds with his Electrolux out in their driveway, vacuuming the flower bed. I thought it was comical back then, but now I think he was brilliant. I got the paving blocks brought over from the abandoned garden plot to keep my shoes from getting muddy when I water the boxes. This has been a "build as you go" kind of project all along.
The "Alaska" peas seedlings. I planted two to a hole. Almost all of them successfully germinated, so I'll have to thin them when they get a little bigger. I just realized that the recommended spacing for peas in the SFG method is 8... not 9. XD Oh, well. (I guess I can pluck out the center ones from each square?)
My husband got the frame for the third box ready. We'll put a weed barrier on the bottom and it will be growing a crop of corn for us this season. There will be a fourth box of summer vegetables. I'm still waiting for the local nursery's veggies to grow a little bigger. I checked their green house yesterday and their tomato, pepper, and eggplant were still tiny baby seedlings. Technically, our area's average last day of frost is April 29. There has been some years with killing frosts as late as the first week of May, so I'm going to play it safe with those tender summer veggies and wait a little longer.
Bridal Veil shrub coming into bloom. Our cats love to curl up under this shrub, hidden away from others, cool from the hot sun. Speaking of hot, it was almost 90 degrees yesterday. The weather man on the news said it's about 20 degrees above the normal average daily high for this time of the year.
And because it's been so warm, my irises have started blooming about a week ago. This is a rhizome I got from a friend years ago and I don't know the name of the variety, but I have many around the house. XD I did a better job of keeping the weed under control in my perennials bed last season, and they seem to be doing much better.
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