Come on flowers! BLOOM!

Husband put in the flower garden at the front of the house. So far it looks really good.

We went to MIL to get some of Husbands grandmothers flowers, only to discover that BIL g/f took just about every, single one. Left us with three of the scraggliest looking lupines. Ask me if I’m impressed. I got over it. This is typical. I should be used to this by now. Anyway, I’m getting off topic.

Lupines and Bachelor Buttons are in the back. My mother gave me the white and blue flowers, and I found a small Lily of the Valley poking out through the weeds. Got one other plant from MIL but I don’t know what kind it is. Husband said we could go out this weekend and get some more.

 

It’s now time to pay attention to my climbing roses. You’re supposed to plant them, then leave them alone for a few seasons to get the tall canes. I think they’re tall enough.

There are flower buds too. When we first got them, one was white and the other was red. A few years later we noticed they were both red. Didn’t see flowers after that but I dumped some woodstove ashes at the base and now they full of buds!

 

 

 

 

 

 

My mother also brought over some hostas. Only place I could put them was in front (behind?) the rose bushes. She gave me some ground cover too. Hopefully, they’ll be able to choke out the weeds.

They really took too. They get the morning sun and they’re shaded from the hot afternoon sun by the thick canes of the rose bush.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The flowers on our lilac bush aren’t that big this year. I think the weird winter caused smaller than normal flower buds

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our neighbours snowball bush is looking good this year. There were a few years where it looked like crap. I don’t know if he did anything to it, but the flowers are numerous this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We extended the veggie garden this year, but it’s still unsure if we’re going to plant veggies. Our roto-tiller is acting up and the ground is too hard to do it by hand. Yeah, already told Husband that already.

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, and this bird has been driving me nuts. It pecks at our wood stove chimny, then flies off and starts pecking on our front door. You can barely see him, but he’s there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone doing a garden this year

They Survived!

First, I want to thank everyone who sent me ideas on how to get rid of the ash from the woodstove. I’ve dumped more in the veggie garden and put some on my climbing roses. I still have a whole burn barrel full of it. I wonder what flowering plants and bushes like it.

Second, and very important—my two tropical plants survived the winter! Both my Christmas cactus and my Stag fern survived. This is a very exciting thing! For the last few years my green thumb has been black and just my looking at a houseplant would cause it to wilt and die. Husband has never had a black thumb. I’ve seen him bring back a plant that fell off a balcony and ¾ dead. Mind you, that was a Spider plant and it’s near impossible to kill off one of those.

The weather is staying warm here, and I’m itching to get out and do some gardening. We’re not going to have as many green peppers this year. Just one plant. The four we had last year produced so much that we couldn’t keep up, and everyone around here has gardens so we can’t give the stuff away. I was thinking about a road side stand with fresh veggies for the campers. We have two campgrounds nearby with piles of tourists. Another reason I don’t like to take walks. Some of these people are real city-slickers and seeing cows or sheep for the first time is a driving distraction. If you think I’m joking, then you haven’t lived out in the country.

Whoops, sorry, kinda got off topic there…
Anyway, like I said, with all the warm weather I’m just itching to get out. I wonder what kind of summer we’ll have?

The Veggie Garden (with pictures!)

Trying to get back on track. My weekend partying really pulled me off my schedule. So, here goes.

It’s really coming along nicely. Granted, I need to get in and weed a bit more, but it exploded as soon as we got some nice weather. My two tomato plants exploded, especially the one on the right.

We’re going to have a pile of tomatoes. Will probably have to make spagetti sauce and freeze it.

Celery (right) and Onions (left)

Green peppers are coming along nicely too. Four plants, I’m going to have to find a really good stuffed pepper recipe.

Vines are doing great too. You can actually see what plant will have what on it.

Butternut Squash

Pumpkin!

Wild asparagus.

My petunias

Thyme growing in our front lawn.

It smells so nice when Husband mows the lawn. That’s how we knew we had herbs growing there. We haven’t been able to harvest anything. I think most of this will be late summer/early autumn before it’s ready. Hopefully the tomatoes will be done soon. One of the two were suppose to be ‘early’ ones. Not too damn early if you ask me.  

How Does the Garden Grow?

Slowly.

So the garden is doing good. Strawberries are starting to ripen up, and of course, the chipmunks are all over them. Husband got some mesh covering, but he’s afraid that the small holes would be too sharp and they’d cut their paws. That’s the only thing they’re eating, so I should be grateful.

My peonies are looking wonderful, but they’re so heavy. I was going to get a tomato holder to keep them up. You’d be able to thread the small stalks through the lower wires. If you try this, let me know how it works. As you see, found an alternative.

And we have squash and pumpkins coming up!

Pumpkins!Butternut Squash

Hobby: Gardening

Just a warning. This post is picture heavy. We had a week of rain and everything exploded. Got our veggie garden ploughed and planted. Had to do it by hand because the rototiller broke.

There are (starting top-left going down the row) green peppers, onions, celery and a tomato, bottom row) two strawberries and another tomato. Watch, they’ll cross pollinate and I’ll end up with strawberries that taste like tomatoes or the other way around.

This next four are pumpkin, cantaloupe, melon and squash, but I’m not sure which is which because Husband planted them and didn’t put the little tags in front.

This is one of our apple trees and a lilac bush. There are so many flowers on this tree. I really hope we don’t get a pile of apples.  

I put my mint outside, but left it too close to the rain run-off. *shakes head*

The mint in the red pot might not come up, but I’m hoping the one on the right takes off. I love mint tea, especially after supper or before bed.