May Garden 5/30/24

 Bah, still have about 15 hostas to move out of perennial beds into the new garden area. Mature back breakers.  Working on Mr. DOA to use his muscles to dig them out for me.  Could work.  

I'm searching for my older garden notebooks so I can identify plants, as I used to.  Not finding the ones I want.  What on earth do I do with these things?

 

 Strawberry

Clematis Elsa Spath

Columbine

Columbine  "Aquilegia Caerulea"

Begonia

Dianthus

Iris Batik

Columbine Carol Ann

Coral Sunrise Coleus 

and Petunia Mambo GP Rose Veined

Cuphea Floriglory Diana

Nicotiana Saratogoa Apple Blossom

Chives

Dianthus Super Parfait Strawberry

Geranium Rosalie Antique Salmon

Vinca Valiant Apricot

 

Zinnias and Dahlias, Begonia Top Hat Pink

Clematis Dr. Ruppel

Chives and Astrantia

 

 Variegated Solomon's Seal

Astilboides tabularis  (Rodgersia Tabularis)

Dianthus Super Parfait Strawberry, Kong Rose Coleus, Kong Salmon Pink Coleus

May Garden 5/6/24

 

On the first perfect spring day, we were kept in the house while tree trimmers worked in the yard. I only managed to dig out and move four plants. Two large hostas just couldn’t be pried out with either a shovel or spading fork. Bah, and it rains again tomorrow.

I plan to bring my seeds out to the potting bench in the garage, sort though, and see what can be planted now. Once that center bed is cleared and shaped…Wednesday.

All the seedlings Istarted under lights are outside hardening off and are doing well.

Borage from seed

Purple Broccoli and Catnip from seed

My daylily bed with a few herbs, seed trays at the front.

South side of veg garden getting loaded.

An old windmill now will hold pole beans

Pulmonaria Shrimp on the Barbie

Transplants: Ligularia Midnight Lady, a gold heuchera that may need dividing as it has died out in spots, columbine, hostas, alchemilla Thriller.

Primrose

Dicentra Goldheart

May Garden 5/1/24

 While most of the seeds I’m starting this year need to be planted directly in the garden, I started some onions, tomatoes, and herbs and several varieties of Marigolds under lights. They’ve done surprisingly well and the cool weather tolerant plants are out in the garden mini-greenhouse hardening off, and they go in another mini- greenhouse in the garage at night.

 

Spring comes with a huge reorganization of the potting bench and garden items area in the garage.

I'm getting all ornaments, trellises and shelving out into the side yard. 

I'm expanding my "vegetable garden" this year 13 feet into the perennial area of the yard.  It's hard to tell in the photos because it's early on, but this will give me a much longer central bed for vegetables only, and allow me to move all of my shade perennials into this area along the sides.  The gardens will be removed from the larger yard area, creeping charlie and various other out of control weedy things will go poof, and the grassy area will be a nice play area for the dogs (working on their Frisbee and other skills) and make a space where we can set up croquet or badminton, perhaps.

From this end you can see the drop off where the garden bed previously ended.