kohoutjm's Blog

What happened to May?
Jun 11, 2009 | 12:46 AM PST
Tags: Peas , Lettuce , Minchow Iris , Mystery Plant

So I realized today that I had not posted photos or a blog entry in all of May and noticed that June is going fast. Here is the most recent set of photos I took. The mystery plant is not a peony. Here is the photo of it all grown up. It is in full shade.

 

Last year my mom sent some of her "Minchow" Iris divisions in a large bag. I cleaned them up and planted as many as I could then hoped for the best. Out of the newly planted (last fall) I had 3 sets bloom. They all looked like the one below. However my mom claims there should be some yellow ones. I will have to wait til next year to find out!

Lastly my vegetable garden is doing well. I have decided that I will not try radishes again next year. This is the third year that they have failed miserably in my garden and I am tired of trying. Other things are doing really well. The peppers are in and growing along with the 5 tomato plants. I have been harvesting lettuce for 3-4 weeks and I just started harvesting the sugar snap peas last week. My daughter has decided that mommy doesn't get any and proceeds to eat them faster than I can pick them. We have had lots of storms this week and some strong winds. I went out on Monday to find all of my peas knocked over. I propped them up as best as I could, hopefully they will continue to produce. Anyway, here is the pic of the peas and lettuce patch.

Happy Gardening everyone!

Composting with Oma-Gro®
Mar 20, 2009 | 6:54 AM PST
Tags: compost , Oma-Gro® , onions , peas , radish , lettuce , local economy , Omaha , Nebraska
I took a couple of days off of work and the weather is going to cooperate and allow me lots of time in the garden. Yesterday I purchased some Oma-Gro® compost and was very excited to find out that it comes from Omaha, NE, only 60 miles away from here. It makes me feel like I am supporting our local economy and providing jobs to people in the area. We will see how much it helps, it looks nice. Dark and crumbly a few 6-8 inch stick here or there, but overall very easy to work into the soil. I am hand turning my garden this year and yeaterday I managed to turn about 1/3 of it. I am getting ready to head out again as it is now 40º and will be near 60º later today. The ground temperature is holding right about 50-55º. So I will be planting some onions, peas, radishes, and lettuce. They are calling for rain for the next couple of days, so I should be golden if I can get them in the ground today. Wish me luck. I should have photos later of my hard work in the garden.