I have a little going on in the vegetable garden. Everything is up and growing except marigolds which were old seeds my Nan had so I guess they were no longer fertile. I planted new seeds so they should be up in no time. They only took a few days in my flower garden. The nasturtiums I planted with the spinach and peas are the tall ones here.
This one above is the carrot, lettuce, and squash bed. I can only have two squash plants per mound so I transplanted a couple into these hanging planter bags. You can grow squash hanging so I thought I'd give it a try in these bags I had lying around. I hang them in a couple of weeks; I guess to let the roots dig in. I will add a large trellis against the fence later for the squash vines to climb on. I also transplanted a couple of nasturtium because they are squash companions, they trail very nicely and of course they will add a colorful touch. The seed packet says nasturtiums do not transplant well and indeed they wilted almost immediately but I just added lots of water to them and they came around.
Our first harvest! I had to do quite a bit of thinning of spinach and lettuce. The spinach have tiny baby leaves. They were yummy. My daughter who is a little rabbit gobbled both up.
Here is one of two tomato and basil, and peppers and nasturtiums planters. I had to move them to the front yard because they were not getting enough sun in the back.
The peppers were not sprouting so I bought more seed and as I was planting I noticed 3 or 4 sprouts in one pot. I planted new ones anyway and will thin later.
Finally, the flower garden is slowly coming along. Everything is up and as you can see the hosta is HUGE! I did add some forget-me-nots as well because the evening primose isn’t coming in as well as I like. Hopefully it will help to fill in the gaps and the purple and yellow together should be really striking!
