Is Planted!
Woo-hoo...(ouch)
Left to right, kohlrabi (serious transplant shock), tomatoes, two rows of sweet corn, tomatoes,
and one row with 1/3 beets, 1/3 carrots, & 1/3 parsnips.
On the far end is a hill of heirloom squash.
On the near end is zucchini squash.
The hilly parts have a scattering of marigold seeds.
Yes, I know if everything comes up,
the plants will be packed in there very densely.
Hopefully the kohlrabi will be done
by the time the squash start wandering.
(The downspout extension was sloped properly after the picture was taken. Why haul water when gravity can do the work?)
One row of a multicolor decorative corn;
hopefully it can be dried and used as popcorn.
The cabbage is also experiencing serious transplant shock.
Chinese chrysanthemums surrounding some of the roma tomatoes that were started in the mini-greenhouse. The chrysanthemums got a jump start on growing this year because the plants that were there last year went to seed and were knocked down to the ground and randomly seeded themselves. The greens will be tasty in stir-fry dishes, and the blossoms make lovely tea. Sage is blooming in the background.
Aside from the few tomatoes and jalapeno peppers planted in this spot, everything was seeds,
so here is a picture of mostly plain dirt containing seeds for
marigolds, beans, carrots, lettuce, radishes, basil, and spinach.
Some of those wandering onions are at the back,
and dill is volunteering at the upper right corner.
Beyond that is a hill of pole beans, and another small patch of little pie pumpkins.
The Musquee de Provence pumpkin transplants are struggling along. Planted some fresh seeds behind them, and they are starting to sprout. The new seeds will probably grow faster and eventually choke out the transplants, because the transplants had wasted so much of their seed energy reserves re-growing leaves after the inside of the greenhouse got a bit too cold.
Sunsugar (little orange cherry tomatoes) are in the middle,
and yellow pear cherry tomatoes are on both sides.
Those are planted next to the garage,
because they tend to get quite tall;
it is much easier to trellis them there.
More pumpkins-
this time they are a small, heirloom blue-green variety.
There is another small planting bed behind this.
It has a row of sugar snap peas and snow peas next to the trellis,
then a row of pole beans, which will hopefully take over after the peas have done their thing, then a row of asparagus seedlings which are just starting to sprout. I planted an entire row of asparagus seeds last year as well, but only four plants survived the winter to be transplanted into the asparagus patch.
Gee, now I get to do this all over again planting mom's garden.
Her garden will hopefully be a bit lower maintenance this year with lots of root crops and fewer tomatoes. There are only 24 hours in a day, and a lot of work needs to be done inside her house this year. And then there is my house...
