The left hand side of the garden...

The center of the garden... Peppers, plus two surviving pea plants in the center. The lush green plants in the front row are going to be straw flowers - another survivor from my seedlings.

The tomato end of the garden... Peppers are peeking up and the tomatoes are becoming entangled with each other!

Lush and purple crystal palace something..

My quickly expanding squash and pumpkin plants.

Squash blossom!

Tomato blossom

Blossoms on my tomato plants!

A pepper plant.

I transplanted several of the tomato-weeds into the spot where the beets were originally going to be.

The radishes confuse me. They're flowering, but there were only like 1-2 marble sized radishes in there. Nothing more. The rest were just normal skinny roots. So either I didn't thin them out enough, making it difficult for them to get enough nutrients, or they suck. I vote to blame the radishes, it couldn't possibly be me.

Happy little herbs, growing away. This year I'm going to be good about plucking off the flowers.

Mint-gone-wild!

No restraint: picking up herbs

I went down to Pemberton Farms today to pick out some herbs for my porch. This year I'd like to go for useful herbs rather than whatever catches my eye. Last year I mainly used basil (when it was freakishly contaminated), marjoram and oregano. The dill was a bit of a waste. The mint, while I love it, I didn't use too much.



In any case, this is what I ended up getting:

Oregano, Greek
Cilantro/Coriander
Rosemary, Sal's Choice
Thyme, French
Sage, purple
Marigolds (2 six packs)
Calendula (1 six pack)

For my mother, since she was a good excuse to buy things I didn't need:
Mint, Pennyroyal (n=2; for cat mat-making, not consuming)
Mint, Crisp Scotch



I also picked up that cute new planter, which is 30" by 10" with a built-in troph in the bottom for the rail on your porch to set into. No hanging off the side of the rail. It seems moderately more stable, but I'm concerned that it will (a) look tacky and (b) result in less sunlight since it sets farther into the roofed porch.