Welcome to my Starting a garden blog Post #14 👋. First the flowers 🏵️🙂. New in the garden this week, marigolds are blooming!
We planted lots of marigolds that we started from seeds. They are just catching up to the ones you can buy at the store and pop in the ground. Note to self: start marigolds earlier next year.
Lots of lovely purple raspberry plants all around on the edge of the forest. No raspberries yet but I am watching so I can beat the birds and bears 😅
My sunflowers continue to be the best of the garden so far.
Lots of sunflowers in various stages around the garden and some flower beds.
My wife has started calling this our sunflower orchard. The sunflowers are now as tall as she is 😂
Some fleabane is blooming in the wild parts of our property.
I was hoping this daisy would open in time for this weeks post but I guess it needs another day or two.
Bargain of the week 🚨: we found perrenials on sale for $1 per plant! We picked up these phlox.
And 25 other plants 😉 Bee balm, black eyed-susans, cone flowers everything that still looked healthy.
On to the gardening proper part of the blog...
The garden is growing like crazy. Every morning is exciting to see the progress. We got a little carried away germinating seeds and planted too many plants to really fit in our beds.
My project this week was building a little trellis for the cucumbers. We have been encouraging them to grow over the side of the bed and this will give them some support. Its like an expansion of the bed, free space 😁 I used some 3ft high welded wire fencing and tree branches I found in the woods for the poles. I attached the bottom of the fencing to the side of the bed then wired the poles and fencing together at the top. It came out way sturdier than I expected and way sturdier than it looks haha
Other garden updates:
Tomatoes are blooming.
And putting on fruit.
Zucchini are also blooming and putting on tiny zucchinis.
We finally got some mint to come up but more importantly, the pattern of waterdrops on the leaves is really cool 😊
Around the orchard...
We have one tiny pear lol
No apples this year. Hopefully next year. The apple trees did not really properly bloom.
Lots of crabapples. Maybe we will try to make some jelly but most likely we will just leave for birds.
Speaking of birds, the honeysuckle at the edge of the woods has bright red berries and right on cue, the cedar wax wings showed up and started feasting.
Not a great photo but I think I will try and get a better one for #featheredfriends. I'm a little worried about my raspberries and blueberries. I may need to invest in some bird netting. But thats for another day.
Thanks for visiting my post 🙏 Have a great week!
And keep on trucking... lol
(we stopped to act as crossing guards for this snapping turtle on the way home yeasterday)