I finished up the second full weekend in the garden. I am behind and wirking to catch up.
I didn’t start anything indoors late winter/early winter, so I’m taking risks sowing many things directly into the garden. Some things will be fine, others? We shall see.
filled, and sowed/planted. two more left to go…
The two newest elevated beds are for brassica. Leaning on companion planting, hoping to ward off cabbage moths/caterpillars, I’ve ringed the perimeters with an assortment of smelly herbs: oregano, lavender, dill, sage, thyme. (The yellow petunias are strictly for pretty.) Fingers are crossed; those catepillars can clear a bed.
the envelope without a photo is brassica rapa: Nagasaki Akari Kabu, a small purple turnip with edible leaves, stalks and flowers.
they are sown in the gaps between the herbs.
I tucked in more petunias and some perennials that have been waiting for homes, cleared some weeds, and spent a chunk of the day spreading mulch. The big spring mulch sale is running through May 7, so I’ll likely pick up at least ten more bags, the per run limit for my trusty Prius V.
The two large raspberry brambles found on clearance have homes on either side of the red arbor gate.
but those brambles were significantly smaller, and the heavily clay soil wasn’t
ammended enough. I am holding
onto images of bountiful berry harvests.
To wrap up the day, some shots of things in bloom:
they smell like lemon poundcake…
in the background.
purple/white in the foreground
in the background
and chocolate ajuga
spiderwort behind
(the pale purple iris smell faintly
of grape soda)
also smell like lemon poundcake
with a visitor
preparing to bloom
with a huge English thyme in the background
is six or seven years old
in their third fruit bearing year
(planted the year before)
our cattywampus cottage 