Veggie Planting
With lots of help I finally planted my vegetable garden. I decided to only put 2 tomato plants in the general veggie bed, and put the other 3 in pots. I've planted a small variety of things, some new and some old standards. I'm especially interested in the Lemongrass (not sure if this will be the same one we buy at the grocery store) and the green beans!Snow peas all along the fence should be pretty when it starts happening - I have to get those in earlier next year for sure, but it is actually still pretty early.
Marigolds are supposed to ward off pests so I planted them around the bed where I had room.
Made a few additions to the perenial bed. Bought a Bee Balm and a Liatris. Finally planted the Maltese cross and am going to put one more in the same spot. Found 2 cool kinds of mint at the greenhouse (Pineapple and Ginger mint) and put them in here too.Pruned the Lilac back hard thanks to my dad and now it looks great. Unfortunately, there are so many roots in the ground underneath the Lilac I don't think anything will easily grow here (except more Lilac and weeds). The best thing I think that I can do at this point is lay down some cloth and cover it up with bark, just around the base of the Lilac to keep the suckers from coming back up, and the weeds from invading again. Maybe once I put more thought into it I will choose a ground cover and start to let it take over. I will do the same type of pruning on the Ninebark when I get a chance, and the whole bed should look a lot cleaner.
I put the less hardy herbs in pots and prepared some pots for the remaining tomato plants.Just a few more jobs this week and weekend:
- Stake raspberries, weed and add compost
- Prune Hydrangea & Big tree in the back
- Buy yellow shrub I saw at the greenhouse for the shrub bed and plant
- Plant Nasturtiums
- Plant green onions
- Plant tomato plants into pots
- Plant hot pepper plants into pots
- Lay cloth around Lilac and spread cedar bark
- Plant more marigolds into Basil pot
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