It's always busy in the garden....
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| Everyone hard at work |
Our transplanted flowers and plants seem to be doing well....
The Californian poppies from last year are flowering and both the bee balms (Monarda) beside it look like they have settled in.
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| The bee balm is outlined in a red circle - look for it! |
The lavender seems to be trying to reach for more sun! It was planted with all the other herbs, which are in the shadier part of the garden.
Garlic chives are doing okay as well as the Shasta daisy.
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| Garlic chives |
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| Shasta daisy |
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The Phygelius and Verbena seems to be doing okay. Our Verbena was pretty small to begin with so it'll take some time for it to grow.
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| Phygelius 'Cape Fuchsia', favourite of hummingbirds |
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| Our 'wee' Verbena (just behind the white tag) |
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Looks like someone has taken a nibble out of our transplanted Agastache!
The flowering sage in the garden has been attracting lots of bees.
This week we decided to remove flowering radishes since we had other plants blooming now. The radishes were one of the first plants to flower in our garden this season as they were leftover from last year's crop. It served its purpose by attracting lots of pollinators. In its place we planted a row of beet blend seeds.
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| Preparing the bed for planting. Gaia Green added |
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| We planted 1 row of beets. |
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We also planted some tricolour bush bean blend behind mesclun greens in Bed 9.
What's growing:
The flowers are taking over! Our peas are growing well - it's a jungle out there!
The zucchini are flowering and tomatoes are growing nicely. We've been covering it since we transplanted it 2 weeks ago but I think it's time to come off since the weather has been really warm.
Something interesting to note - we transplanted the zucchini in the little box (see below) several weeks ago. Both zucchini plants were from the same growing batch but the one that was transplanted 2 weeks ago (above) is doing a lot better, perhaps because it was transplanted a lot later when the weather was warmer.
Attempting to grow the three sisters....the corn has sprouted though probably not in time to be high enough to support the beans...too bad. Next time, we need to start the corn indoors first and the transplant it outside when the weather warms up.
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| See the little shoot that looks like grass? That's corn. |
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| 3 sisters: Corn, beans and squash |
We planted more pole beans (Indian woman) with the '2 sisters'.
Spinach is coming up and the alyssum is finally sprouting....all over the place! We've been finding alyssum everywhere, all along the garden.
We transplanted broccoli in amongst our prolific strawberries and it's been taking awhile to grow. We finally see it poking out from the strawberries!
The nodding onions are doing well too and we can soon expect some blueberries!
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| Yup, them onions are nodding away! |
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| We have blueberries. Can you see them? |
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The cabbages are putting on more bulk though the carrots we seeded in this bed never took. We learnt that farmers actually wrap their Napa cabbages so they grow more tightly. Will have to find out if that's true....
The transplanted sweet peas are finding good 'footholds' in the netting we placed behind it. Our cauliflower in the same bed is getting bigger...
Look what we found hiding! Yum! It's like a treasure hunt (Strawberry)
The fava beans are finally staked.
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| Leanna tying the fava beans |
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| All neatly tied up! |
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Our harvest:
Strawberry! And leaves. Did you know you could eat strawberry leaves? Check out this blog here that talks about the healing properties of strawberry leaves.
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| Spinach, lettuce & strawberry leaves! |
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| Mesclun, curly cress & arugula |
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Here's the updated garden map...
