How Does Your Garden Grow, Part 3

A nice picture of my zucchini plants. I like to have my zucchini breaded and fried, even though I know that's not very good for you.

There is a little gardening space right here, next to my garage. I planted mixed variety leaf lettuce, a mangled up heap of basil and spinach, and spring onions in here. I should probably get more organized next year. Fates willing that I am here to garden next year.

I can't even eat these spring onions. For some reason or another, I've developed a digestive intolerance to them. To many of the plants in the lily family. That bums me out.

Here is the really nice picnic table that my husband built this year. I think we are going to make a hole in the middle so we can put a big umbrella in it. Or maybe just move it back into the shade of our pretty oak tree at the back of our yard.

I planted Roma tomatoes on the side of my house, these are on the other side of the air conditioner. I put zucchini on one half and tomatoes on the other. Many of my tomatoes got knocked off when the old roof was sloughed off and they took a battering of many shingles, but many survived.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

I always start out very excited about gardening, but around July, I throw in the towel, I don't feel like weeding very much, and I start to water less frequently, and I don't give them any special plant foods or fertilizers, like I used to. Nonetheless, here are some things that have managed to hold on to midsummer. I have a pot of marigolds, this started out as a seedling in a cup given to me by Matthew, for Mother's Day. Next to that is a pot of sage. The sage started out near my sidewalk, but something kept coming up and eating it. Squirrels? So I brought what was left of it onto the porch steps, where it has not done too badly.

On one side of my sidewalk there is a thick tussock of parsley in front of a bunch of coreopsis. The coreopsis was already established when we moved in. I have been gathering seeds from it and maybe I will plant some more next year.

Next to my coreopsis is some sweet alyssum. That was a Mother's Day present from Justin. More seedlings in a cup that were not labelled. I started these in a pot which they quickly outgrew. I planted them where my sage used to be, and now they are taking over the sidewalk, such as it is. I'd like to get some new sidewalk in that stamped concrete, maybe, but since we got a new roof this year, we're probably not going to be getting a new sidewalk. One thing at a time.

Then I have a patch of basil. It's so tall! And it smells really good, better than flowers. Next to that I have a spotted laurel. I'd like to thank Niall Young for helping me put a name to this plant. It was here when we moved in.

The other side of my sidewalk has four o'clocks and foxglove. I put in the foxglove when the four o'clocks were not looking so hot. They've rallied. Now they are too tall for the foxgloves to get much sunlight, so I don't know what they'll do. I'll just let them sort it out amongst themselves.