Evening walk in the garden

After I put the kiddos to bed I took a nice little walk around the garden after we have had 2 days of rain totaling almost 4 inches! I just wanted to see how it affected everything, and it seems to be doing great!

Edited to add: I wonder how crazy our neighbors think we are when they see us with cameras wondering around our gardens taking pictures.

These are some new comers, have to find a good spot for them tomorrow. Blanket Flower Arizona Sun (Gaillardia x Grandiflora) and Lantana. I think I will put the Lantana in a corner spot in the sfg.

These are my Juliet Grape tomatoes.

Laura Red Achillea, I like it much better than the Paprika ones I have. Dh brought this one home for me.

Lettuce, it was part of a mix package so I have no idea what kind, but it is doing much better than I thought it would. Though these are the only 3 that made it out of probably 12 that I planted, maybe it is a tougher variety.

Provider beans, they have had blooms on them for a bit now.

Rainbow Chard

Tomato

Sebring and 8 ball zucchini

Tomato and Broccoli

Acorn Squash, just planted it last weekend, looks nice so far.

Icebox Watermelon already taking over other squares, better get that support up tomorrow.

Cilantro

An unfriendly visitor....this thing was HUGE and at least an inch long! He was crunched up with his mouth wide open for this shot. Don't worry, he met his fate! My foot!

Moonbeam Coreopsis. Growing much better than I expected, not a lot of blooms yet, but the plant is getting bigger and that is good!

Tomorrow we will be working in the garden. Getting the rest of the compost down in the back flower beds, maybe planting a couple of things. We definitely need to get the trellis' up for those vining veggies. And we are putting together a compost tea brewer. A fellow garden blogger pointed me to this site for instructions on making one cheap. I have all the supplies and I am ready to start!

Vegetable Garden in Progress

We have been working in the garden today, even though the kids and I have been sick. I just got it last night, they are getting over it.

Last fall we transplanted some hostas from the back yard to around the front tree. Some did not make it so I transplanted some more, that would be the smaller ones. Hopefully they will catch up with a little care and fertilizer.

We finally put some compost down on the side bed. Now it just needs and edge.

The pumpkins, melons, and flowers are doing well, as long as the cats and bunnies stay away. One has been nibbled on already.

On the left is one seeded and one seedless watermelon and Lemon and American Slicing Cucumbers. In the back is tomato and oregano, I trimmed the oregano down. Hope that helps it along. In the middle I have some cilantro and habanero peppers. And a Serrano pepper on the right side.

Here I have bell peppers in the middle. Cabbage in the left bottom corner. And some Acorn seedling just starting to come up in the right bottom corner.

Tomato, Broccoli, cabbage, catnip, and another Acorn seedling. There is some more tomato and Serrano pepper behind the big tomato plant.

This was the first bed started with tomato, beans, lettuce, chard, spicy bush basil, and I just added some summer squash to the left. It all appears to be doing well even though most of it was late getting going.

An overall view. Still haven't got the paths in yet. Maybe when we don't have so much other work to do in the yard. It isn't a top priority as long as the garden is growing!

Today's work in the garden

The whole family was working in the yard today. 3 yr olds included...he he! Busy transplanting, mowing, weeding, covering etc.

More lilies are blooming and they sure are lovely! This one hardly looks touched by the bug or fungus that is getting some of the other ones. Isn't it lovely!

Daisy and Jacob's first Pumpkin plants. They are doing good so far. They did so good, they even filled the whole pot with potting soil all by themselves.

A veiw of the veggie garden. Gotta keep the critters out! Already have had two bell pepper plants and a tomato plant eaten to the stub! Cat or bunny I think!

Some of it is growing well. Clark said "did we start all of this?" All but a couple of things! All from seed! Feels good even though some of it is behind! Hopefully it will still do ok. I had to start over again after my cats ate my first seedlings! I started some Acorn squash seeds in here today too.

Clark's Giant Pumpkin box (Dills Atlantic)! The giant pumpkins are on the right. On the left is Ambrosia Melon and Sugar pumpkin. I might plant some flowers between them.

I know, you can barely see some of it but it is there! There are some tiny Habanero's, and some tiny Cilantro mixed among the tomotoes, watermelon, Cucumbers, etc. The vining stuff goes on the end so we can put them on a support that is not yet built!

A surprise in one of the flower beds. I had planted Nasturtium there last year, I did not know any would come back. I am pretty sure they are annual so it must have seeded itself! That's ok! I'll keep it! I almost shoveled over it so I hope I didn't do it any damage. Clark says he is amazed at all the plant names and bug name I know now! Lots of reading! I am no expert yet, but maybe someday!

Clark was working on putting new hinges and latches on the gate! Gotta keep those kids locked in! They are sneaky!

More in the Spring Garden

Young plants getting ready to be transplanted. Cosmos, tomatoes, Salvia, and Daisy and Jacob's pumpkins (not even germinated yet).

A work in progress.... 4 Square Foot Gardens. We have started laying out some brick to make a brick path around them to make them look real nice and easy to work around. The front two have seedlings in them, the other two are empty till we start transplanting all those seedlings from the previous photo.

The clematis is looking beautiful this year.

3 different strawberry plants. Tennessee Beauty, Ozark, and another I forgot, I'll have to check when it stops raining.

Today we are gonna work on starting seeds for Blue Fescue Grass and some Orange Cosmos.

Spring in the Garden!

I have decided to start a separate blog for just my gardening progress! Spring is here and the garden is started and I would like to track the progress as our garden grows!

This is the back bed next to the deck and if you had seen it last week you would think this is an amazing transformation.....it was taken over by weeds, completely full. Now it is full of marigolds, two Moonbeam Coreopsis, Lilies, and Alyssum.

This is the other side of the deck where I planted some new Paprika Achillea some marigolds and those are grape tomatoes hanging in the pots. And of course the Daffodils are dying off.

This is the front of the deck, full of Lily's, 1 Azaleas and some marigolds.

This is our first attempt at Square Foot Gardening. There are tomatoes, cabbage, broccoli, lettuce, chard, spinach, beans, onions etc. Not sure what all is gonna make it yet.

Well, I will have more to share tomorrow for those interested in our garden progress.