gardening

They look pretty grown but just before I snapped this pic, one of them was begging an adult at my bird feeder, very cute to watch them flitting around....

I didn’t plant it (intentionally) but it’s definitely more than a weed. I’m letting it grow just to see what it wants to grow up to be.

Most stuff should be able to take it, but lots of pepper and tomatoe starts.

In this bed we have basically a remainder of seeds from the other ones, not gonna be able to rotate the beds like I originally planned, but oh well....

In the pots are peas. The close raised bed is flowers and strawberry plant....

Rock is called Alberta Rainbow Rock, probably under a different name elsewhere, shows its color when wet. I cut a strip of grass out so I could have the rock be about 4” deep where the grass is. Other than that left the old grass to compost underneath the rest.

Our kids wish we had more. I’m not sure which verity these are, but they put out tons of runners which makes me not want to put them directly in soil....

The experimental mat has been out for about a week now, but extremely high winds during a storm last night pulled up a corner of the mat spilling out the contents....

Spent the day pulling honeysuckle vines out of a homesteader client’s back fence. I turned a perfectly good set of pruning shears into beaters pulling all that stuff out, but this guy was just extra in every way

In this bed (plan is to rotate with the other one) is sunflowers and tomatoes on the left, mixed in with them is arugula, carrots and cucumbers....

Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we’re experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats....

Shuffling around my peppers to make room for the tomatoes I just planted up.

After a cold and rainy start of spring, finally the beans are sprouting. We also have a bunch of tomatoes and brassicae....

We got some tomatoe, pepper and marigold starts from HD, some sunflowers I started, there is also watermelon radishes, cucumbers, kale, basil and some carrots in there as well....

The top half are Black Hungarians, and the bottom are jalapeños. I actually ended up with more than I have pots for. I’ll see if anyone in the office wants some of them.

Corn is finally peeking out, but something has been digging it up and chomping seedlings, too. I shotgunned it, so I can afford the losses. More stuff in a comment to follow

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Lots of peas, few different bean options, lots of carrots, some radishes, lettuces, assortment of flowers....

They aren’t going in yet, hopefully slowly over the next week, still need to harden off my starts, but didn’t want to be left with nothing for options either....

Having never owned a house or really had a yard of my own, I got pretty excited and decided to do some ad-hoc landscaping. Built some raised beds for vegetables, and just laying in some organic shaped in-ground beds for low water decorative plants. Gonna fill the rest in with gravel. Any pointers?

Daikon goes boom. Pak choi is on the way up with it. Gotta solve my soil issues before I put these down. Speaking of soil issues, I probably gotta start over on my squash bed. Nothing looks too happy in there and instead of watching it die a slow death, I’m just gonna direct sow everything after I get some amendments in with...