Garden update 6.14

[elvenjaneite]

 

We've been doing quite a bit of work on the garden and yard and it's starting to show results! I picked the first green beans this morning, the peas are starting to come in, and the tomatoes are on the way. I'm also starting some seeds for the fall vegetable garden--broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and cucumbers. We'll see how they do! 

Aside from that, I'm trying to weed/dig up plants and mulch in the front yard. That's the area we want to turn into a native garden so we're not really planting anything yet, but trying to get it ready. 

It's supposed to be hot, sunny, and humid all week here, so watering is going to a priority (ugghhhhhh @ the Midwest summer). 

Harvesting: peas, beans, nasturtiums, mint, basil, the babiest of carrots, one lone tomato
Coming along: cauliflower, carrots, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, strawberries (!!), bachelors buttons
Growing: squash, fruit trees, blueberry, rhubarb, dill, beets, kale, zinnias, okra

Comments

[katharhino]

What kind of native garden are you thinking? We have sort of done that, although calling it a native garden sounds a little more grand than it is. We have an area of lawn that we stopped mowing and instead starting planting native wildflowers and we keep adding more wildflowers and plants as we can. But it's not organized at all, it's more like prairie. It's pretty though! It took a couple of years but we have a lot of flowers!

[forestofglory]

Yay harvesting! (Also I love that basket!)

[elvenjaneite]

Because we live in the city, we're a little more constrained--we have to have a plan and submit it to have the garden certified. If we don't, neighbors can report it and we could get fined, so obviously we want to avoid that! Our front yard is also not fenced, so we want it to look purposeful and garden-y, and we have sun, shade, partial shade, and a ditch.

All of that to say, we're probably being a bit ridiculous, but we have a couple of different "zones" planned. Sun: black-eyed susans, asters, echinacea. Shade: ferns, hepatica, columbines. Marshy ditch: milkweed, irises, and Swamp rose mallow. And then we'll probably fill in with mulch and/or some ground covers like wild ginger and wild geranium.

[elvenjaneite]

I do too! And I can't even remember where/when I got it.

[katharhino]

That sounds so beautiful!!