Arkansas yucca seedling is surviving!Blooming (above) and done blooming (below) dwarf pomegranate.The pie/sour cherries before I got around to picking them.Sleepy supervisor.
Elderberry is so close to blooming.The very heavy rain yesterday evening knocked off the cactus’ impending fruit. Culinary sage is sprouting this time (earlier this spring I planted some and only a few came up).One of my baby cacti.A different species got covered in cottonwood fluff and dew.There is moss growing in the planter!!
Hello Briar shall we tour the garden today?A second Echinacea has fully opened!An okra seedling is up!Strawberries made it into breakfast this morning!“No is boring can we do something fun please”
Cowpeas coming up among corn, beets, and peppers. Coreopsis in background.Black coat runner bean flowers.Mini bell pepper flowering.Rouge Vif d’Etampes squash has big leaves!Inca pea bean leaves.Golden jenny melon needs more sun I think. Its seedling seems stuck.Madhu ras melon is in a better spot.This beetle eats solanaceous plants. It is sitting on my Peruvian ground cherry. This beetle is now gone.Presumed beetle eggs. They are gone now. A mysterious giant finger squished them.
Last year we grew a lot of loofah (luffa? I’ve seen both spellings) gourds and processed them (removing the outer skin from dried gourds) here in the front garden. Obviously a few seeds escaped!
We have almost two pounds of seeds if anyone wants to grow their own…
Slippery silks pole bean are up in both beds 1 and 4Marketmore 76 cucumber in bed 4. None of others up yet.Vaquero bean (a pole bean) in bed 1.Bolas maycoba bean next to lettuce leaf in bed 6.Greasy grits bean (a green pole bean) in bed 1Mbombo beans (a bush type) in bed 5.Blue lake green bush (another bush type) in bed 5.Dutch corn salad greens beginning to make immature seeds.“hilled” potatoes with more dirt added, so they will grow more roots and thus more potatoes.Inca pea beans are the only ones not up yet.Oregon sugar pod peas all fruiting now with more flowers.The lettuce is thinking about bolting so I’m picking any that are growing taller.
Englemann Daisy blooming.Bachelor’s buttons are not native but were in a mix I got and do get some nice little bees.I believe this is greeneyes from seed from Mom.Hedeoma seedling from seed from Paula in western Oklahoma. It’s in the cactus planter. You can also see a baby moss rose and some widow sedum.I think this is going to be an Echineacea, could be either the purple or pale one as I’ve planted seeds of both.Rudbeckia (I think?) leaves are wonderfully soft.Cilantro is blooming beautifully! Future coriander.One parsley is thinking about blooming.Walking onions are so cool.Gaillardia blooming!Sooooo many evening primroses! Last week only a few were open!This mound of Oxalis was here when we moved in and it just gets showier all the time.
The Chef took very good care of the garden while I was on vacation and we got very, very, very, very lucky to get rain and no hail in our part of town. I’m poking at my potted plants right now. I’ll do another post later with the ground plants and raised beds and permanent planters.
Echineacea pallida left out all winter sprouted well (seeds from prairie moon nursery) a while back. I put some of the seedlings in the ground when I left and I’ll plant these last ones soon.The Chimayó peppers from Judy grew almost all these adult leaves. When I left each had one small adult leaf.Hungarian heart tomatoes to replace the one that got killed by the late frost. The seedlings emerged in the plant window so I put them outside yesterday when I got back.I repotted this eggplant right before I left. It has grown a lot. The other one I repotted hasn’t grown as much.Finally the culinary sage is starting to sprout! The only one that was up before now has an adult leaf.These passionvines are the ones where I just smooshed the fruit into a pot and left them out all winter.Liatris mucronata has a hilarious long leaf. I had another one in a bigger pot but it seems to be dying.This yucca now has three leaves! I also planted one in the ground when I left, because it was in the relatively shallow sprouting tray, and it is still alive in the ground.Planted the other tray of green milkweed (Asclepias virida) before I left and will plant these ones soon.Volunteer redbud dug from front raised beds. Eventually I’ll put it in the ground here in backyard. I don’t think it grew any taller, so hopefully it’s working on roots.I now have at least three baby columbines in the sprouting tray and one out in the yard. The package said direct seeding in fall was best, even over stratifying manually, so that’s what I did even for the trays. These babies look a lot like clover, especially when smaller, so I’ve had to be careful.
