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Things are looking great! Lots more green in the garden. I harvested a mess of English peas, but we haven't eaten them yet ~ I think tonight's the night. ;-)
The Dutch Irises have bloomed and I think they're done. Here's a picture from a few days ago...
May 7, 2002
Kenny parked the tall flatbed trailer next to the garden after he'd gone to town and gotten some pallets of compost and stuff, so I climbed up on top and got some pictures. They turned out great! I really should get that pipe off the fence and spread those bags of cow poop ~ they don't look so nice in the pic. ;-)
What's getting planted:
What's sprouting: Sugar cane! One srouted about a week or more ago and there are atleast three more up now. I gotta' e-mail Wallace and ask him again about them.
What's growing great guns: Comfrey
Walking onions (both making bulblets)
Larkspur
Tomatoes
Peppers
What's blooming: Glads will be in a few days!
Larkspur's in full bloom
Tomatoes
Peppers
Tomatillos
Alfalfa
Comfrey
That red salvia that needs IDing
Lettuce! I think we'll pick it soon
What's bearing: Hot banana peppers! A LOT!
One little regular banana pepper
Cayennes ~ regular and Super
Serranos
Tomatoes ~ have 3 little Patios and one Lemon Boy
What's getting picked: Hot banana peppers ~ LOTS!
Regular banana peppers ~ one nice one so far
Cayennes ~ Kenny picked quite a few green ones yesterday
English Peas ~ only a handful out there still, I'll get 'em today
What's getting pulled up: English Peas I think will be outta' there today or tomorrow
May 7, 2002
The comfrey is awesome! It's taken off so much!!! Hard to believe that this is what it looked like on March 23rd: [HYPERLINK@davesgarden.com]
May 7, 2002
The purple morning glories I transplanted are doing well! The color didn't show up right ~ it's really that deep, dark gorgeous purple with the purply-magenta-pink throat. I LOVE these!
May 7, 2002
Hot banana peppers we set out a month ago are going crazy!!
May 7, 2002
Larkspur in full bloom. All purple except for one white one. The other day, Kenny and I saw two hummingbird moths bussing around them. :-)
May 7, 2002
The big walking onions making bulblets. They are so neat!
May 12, 2002
Gladiolas are blooming!
May 12, 2002
The Lemon Boy tomatoes have green ones on them already!!! Yipee!!
May 12, 2002
Lettuce is so pretty! This is Buttercrunch.
May 16, 2002
Gladiolus going great guns! I'm so GLAD! *grin*
The top one is the one I posted above, but it's fully open now. I gave it to Mom for Mother's Day ~ two days late, but she loved it anyway. I love my mommy! LOL!
May 23, 2002
More gladiolas are blooming! Pink ones, white ones and red ones. I got a new camera (Nikon Coolpix885 ~ I hope I like it enough to keep it), so here's a pic I took with it...
May 24, 2002
Mama Bee's lantana is blooming more and more everyday!
May 24, 2002
First ripe tomato!!
May 24, 2002
Berggarten sage looking good!
May 24, 2002
Unicorn Plants ( Proboscidea louisianica ) are already producing fruit.
