Sunday, May 31, 2009

veggies are in, Finally!

I made it to the Richmond nursery for some shopping. I was only going to buy a few veggie plants, but I came back with a bunch of flowers for the front yard as well. I couldnt help myself, that place is dangerous!
It was a typical stormy spring day today, so not the nicest day to be outside in, but pretty good for planting as it was wet. I put on my old winter coat and A's splash pants and rain boots and started. I weeded and planted our vegetable garden containers. Finally! I have been wanting to do so for weeks but something always seemed to pop up. Little by little we will get our yard organised!
So, in our veggie garden we now have, A1: garlic, green onions and carrots (mostly came back from last year) across the path (A2) we have curly leaf lettuce, spinach, arugula, bistro salad, and romain lettuce. Most of these are grown from seed from last years plants, Bonus! I repositioned some in the bed so they are more lined up, and I planted some more spinach seeds. In B1 we are growing 3 green and 3 red pepper plants. B2 has 3 bush bean plants and a jalapeno pepper plant. I have never tried bush beans and am curious to see what they will be like. C1 has cherry, beef steak and a fantastic tomatoe plant, as well as kentucky and scarlet runner green beans, and C2 has a Bonny Best and a Bushy early girl tomatoe plant, a cucumber plant, peas and green beans.
In the patch next to the rhubarb plant I planted 3 fantastic tomatoe plants.
I would like to plant potatoes, and maybe zuchnini or squash in the flower bed at the bottom of the veggie garden, but it would mean ripping a lot of plants out, and i havent decided yet if it will be worth the effors seen as though there is soooo much work to be done still.
The only thing I have done in the front yard so far is reposition the black eyed susan. I kept it in the same flower bed, but I moved it in between the blue mountain huet and the peonie (which by the way seems to be doing well for the first time since it was replanted next to the little tree). I bought a taller variety of black eyed susan and put it in the old spot of the other, in the hope it will look better than the other did. I will let you know how the other planting goes.

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