Gardening Update

If you haven’t seen it, please scroll down to “Gardening Pics.” I showed you the beginning of my son’s planting project along with random yard pictures. Scroll down further to “Gardening/Landscaping Projects” for an intro to this series…we will continue to show the progress throughout the season…

Some Type of Squashy Thing

Sunflower

Purple African

Daisies

Transplantings of

Above Seedlings

The long seedlings bursting out of the tray are peas. They will need to be trellised. It is really fun to grow peas and beans…and great for children too! The flowers are pretty and they are a delight to harvest.

My son had one extra peat disc for me to plant something in, so I chose purple African daisies. You can see the seed clipping I acquired last year from a neighbor. The brilliant purple color of the flowers was so spectacular, I had to have them. We’ll see how it goes!

My son took the seedlings home (he lives in another state) and transplanted some of them. What you see above includes pumpkin, butternut squash, cantaloupe, cucumber, watermelon, peas and several different flowers.

My landscape is under construction, so the gardening is going at a slow pace. Stay tuned…

Oh yes, the infamous Poison Ivy Fence. Sometimes ya just gotta use the weed killer! (It is ideal to remove poison ivy from the roots with gloves, but since it’s growing on the neighbor’s side…actually, there are organic techniques to kill undesirable plants, I’ll try to post on that soon.)

Gardening Pics

Blessings on this Ascension Thursday and feast of Our Lady of Fatima. O Lord ascended in glory, have mercy on us! Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

If you haven’t seen the previous post “Gardening/Landscaping Projects,” please do. This is my son’s gardening project, which is mostly un-germinated seeds (wow!) and random yard pics from the past month. We have a blank slate of a landscape now, but just showing you a few things…

“Jiffy Seed Starting Greenhouse Kit with Expanding Peat Pellets.” Say that 10x fast. My son bought this at The Home Depot and though it uses peat moss, I think it’s pretty cool. He made cryptic markings on the label sticks to keep the orientation and wrote it all out on a planting map. If you look carefully, you can see tiny blue seeds in the 2 rows to the far left. These are Ferry-Morse “Sow Easy” chives, rosemary and thyme. As explained on their website: “Sow Easy seeds are pelleted with an all-natural coating made from a mix of clay, perlite, and FDA-approved food coloring. This coating adds some bulk to small seeds and stands out in the soil, making direct sowing and accurate spacing easier than ever. However, the coating does add a few days to the germination time.” These are resting upon the soil because my son felt like putting some above and some below the soil. As always with gardening…we’ll see what happens!

Where’s all this going to be planted? My son has access to some property near his apartment, where he will be planting. Some may stay here. We will follow the progress as it goes on.

Solar Light Cross

Red Coneflower (Echinacea)

Paperwhite Bulbs

Marigolds

Cherry Blossom Tree

Pink Snow!

Red Tulip

Apricot/Pink Tulips

Queen of Night

Immature Small Pink Tulip

Poison Ivy Fence

Mature Small Pink Tulip

I just learned how to do a gallery! A few words: I adore my apricot & pink striped tulips, I also love the paperwhites-they are quite fragrant, marigolds repel mosquitoes which is a big prob in these parts, the poison ivy fence…just don’t ask.

My flamingo solar light next to my “Footprints” stone.

This is the life! Is it? Why do I always have to get philosophical?