FishinBC's Blog

Wot’s Up!?
Jun 1, 2007 | 10:29 AM PST
Tags: Veggie , hostas , elephant ears , clematis , squash , cukes , compost , beans , tomato

 

 

Two of the three elephant ears I planted are up and growing like crazy.  My white clematis has two buds on it and the red one has finally decided to grow.  The annual bed with the sun flowers, petunias and zinnias is filling in more everyday.  If I could just keep the neighbor’s sheltie from doing his business there I think it would do better.

 

The hostas in the shade bed are all putting up buds and will flower soon.  The coleus are huge and have filled in wonderfully.  All the impatience are thick with flowers and the calla lily now has five blooms on it. 

My dinner plate dahlias all have buds now and I can’t wait to see them bloom!!  Lion Bane, Larkspur, Sweet William, Columbines, Coral Bells are all going great in my woodland bed. 

 

The veggie patch is my favorite place.  Checked last night and my squash all have blooms or buds and the cukes are not far behind.  I pick four beans and ate them right there last night, oh so sweet.  My two later tomatoes are now blooming and will add to the high count of maters very soon.  Think my lettuce and spinach are just about done and I have some more bean starts that I am going to put in their place.   So I will pull out the last of those greens this weekend and get that area ready for the beans.  Need to start looking for some canning or pickling recipes for banana peppers, I am going to have a ton of those.  I love pickled peppers.

Hubbers cut the lawns last night and watered a few of my pots that were looking sad after the first sunny day we’ve had in a while.  The new willow likes its new digs at the back of the pond.  I sent photos to our vagabonding parents and they loved all the work we have done so far. I will try to get on later tonight and post some update photos. 

Started my compost heap but with all the rain we have had this week it still isn’t getting warm.  What have I done wrong?  I layered browns and greens just like the book says, should I give it a stir already?  I shredded leafs that I used really well and added a layer of sticks at the bottom for air.  Then in went a layer of grass clippings and deadheaded flowers, a layer of dried leafs, then more of the same and so on, with a squirt of water.  But then it has rained all week also, is that the problem?