It’s June and we have some fruits developing on our haskaps and strawberries; I think something has gotten to our serviceberries and plums though (curculio maybe). And so many more flowers!
Geraniums, Spurge, Lily of the Valley, and tricolor Willow:
Blackberries and Irises:
Rhododendron with a solitary bee:
Some of the weeds have been going haam too; I think I removed about 2 miles of Asiatic Bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus) yesterday just from one garden area.
What’s growing on with you all?
I lined my disused enclosed chicken run with compost, mulched it with burlap, and planted the whole inside perimeter with a bunch of varieties of pole beans hoping that they’ll grow to the sloped roof and hang down for easy harvest. They’re just starting to grab onto the walls now. I also shook a large packet of bunching onions around the perimeter. No idea how any of this will turn out, but I’m hoping it’ll get completely overgrown, turn into a cave, and be a fun place to hang out in with the kiddo when the heat gets (more) extreme.
Related adventure: this year I grew about a hundred and fifty extra seedlings to give away in front of the house, and they’re almost all gone after half a week. I thought about it for the last few years and finally decided to just do it. Lessons learned: cherry/pear tomatoes were unsurprisingly popular, and I overestimated how many people like eggplant. Next year I need to grow way more culinary herbs and novelties like roselle, ground cherries, artichokes, and goji–those all disappeared fast. I also put out seeds: everyone loves sunflowers and tithonia, but literally no one wanted to grow chard.
I love everything about this project of yours, and hope it goes beautifully for you! Hopefully you and the kiddo are cool about spiders, they also enjoy hanging out in that kind of space!
I have several young goji and sincerely hope for fruit this year from which to do seedlings. Were the seeds harvested from your plants, or ordered from somewhere?
One of my gardening buddies had a look of horror on her face when I told her I was doing showy chard in the gardens (chardens? might be). It’s a plant which has some strong feelings associated with it.
