Gardening Notes: My Gardening Journal

First loofah flower today! Its pretty much covered the trellis and is taking over the strawberry bed!

Roselle is flowering every morning

Goldfinches fighting over the sunflower seeds

Rescue coneflowers, walmart had really pretty rudbeckia ‘sarahs’ but they let them shrivel up before i got back.

Elephant ears getting large, I want some cannas to fill it in.

Yarrow flowering!

Got the cone flowers in and weeded and remulched the bed. Looks so much better, I plan to put one of the great coneflowers I ordered in the back part of the bed by the hosta.

Also the greenhouse by me had a native plant sale and I got:

Yarrow

Swamp milkweed

Green and gold

Spotted beebalm

Tractor supply had coneflowers on sale and i finally got to see one of the elusive armadillos that make trenches in my garden beds!

Got this amazing bird bath for my carnivorous plants! I think the glazed ceramic will be okay for they unlike metal bowls

My weeding assistant and a small commuter we had come through the garden gate

First raspberries and my blue lake bush beans loving their trellis

Sunflowers over 8 feet!

Autumn beauty sunflower almost to 7’

Cayenne peppers looking good!

Marsh marigold my beloved

Found a pawpaw tree on a walk in the greenway by our house

Sunflower progress

My first from seed zinnia flower

The pumpkins still only have male flowers

I got salvia and gallardia (blanketflower) from tractor supply

Got some serious rain last night and planted out 8 blue lake bush beans where I had pulled the garlic up. I plan to get some bamboo and make a teepee for them to climb…. Or maybe just sticks?

Pulled half the garlic in case the rain we are expecting would turn it to mush.

Below is the garlic i harvested a couple weeks ago because it was splitting

Cayenne pebbers!

Got them at walmart, bonnie plant brand.

Marsh marigolds arrived! Got them from bagley pond perennials.

-You vs the marigold she tells you not to worry about

-coreopsis flowers and a cool bug

-dog run progress and so many snow pea shoots

First coreopsis flower! And the rescue columbine is flowering too!

Got a 40% sun shade for the dog run corner to help the tractor leaf plant and comfry.

About 3 of my garlics have side shoots which is called ‘witches brooming’ i pulled one yesterday to see what was what. They seem a little wet and also the new cloves had basically sprouted so ummm not great on those. Its probably due to the crazy temperature fluctuations we have been getting

I put out rock decoy strawberries and we had our first marigold and will have our first snap peas soon.

First snow peas

Porch plant progress

Basil progress

Cleaning up the back bed

Fern corner

Yard photos

The trees have all leafed out and the hostas are baaack.

Also the first iris is blooming and i planted cinnamon ferns in the bed by the patio.

Had my first snow pea shoot stirfry!

The carnivorous pitchers and venus fly traps are back and happy (except one fly trap 😬)

Helenium seeds finallly germinated.

Catnip is looking good too

Hosta progress. Also got some coreopsis at lowes today and a columbine.

Planted the hibiscus in the ground which feels like a big deal.