In an around, much done and much to do.
Photos taken with my Canon PowerShot SX530 HS Camera.
Daisy, in Charge and Keeping a Watchful Eye
Almost Time
Up Close and Personal with the Pepper
Sheep Manure, Orchard Foundation Building
The Traditional May Mushroom Compost
The Garlic Yearns To Be Free (of Weeds)
Lower Garden Prep, 2020
Open for Business
Orchids from a Friend, Still Blooming Years Later
And You?
What’s May brought into your world?
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The orchid is beautiful. Mine bloomed for years then I lost it. I might need to get another one soon. I have all but a few of my annuals planted now in three flower beds, 118 plants. Hence my sore fingers and body today. Might be a good idea to wait a few more days to finish. I love the spring plantings. Looks like you are almost ready to start the vegetables soon!!! It makes for a great harvest!
Yes, the Orchid came from Lisa as a gift after her Mom’s passing. I have cherished this flower and was thrilled to count many buds and now blooms. I’m looking forward to seeing your flower gardens, Mom, always beautiful!
My flowers are getting fuller yand pretty. Need more sun soon so they keep going. I love seeing the colors this year I planted in pots on our deck. Just got 2 white roses on my bush this morning. Our red rose your dad moved by the deck has 4 beautiful blooms. And the star carnations have really spread out so nice. All is great! Loving watching them grow so nice this year.
Hi Mom – it’s so nice to see everything coming up and filling out, isn’t it? 😀
Oh goodness! So much goodness in one post! Stop! I can’t take it. HEHE. Looks like you guys have been very busy during May. I suspect that June will be the same. I’d love to have some of that good sheep manure and mushroom compost. But alas, I’m almost done planting. But these are things to think about for this winter or next spring. Our May was spent just getting the garden built and then planted. I still have one more bed to build, prep, and plant. It will likely be a tomato bed. We usually can 100 pounds of tomatoes every year but we aren’t sure we’ll be able to purchase the tomatoes from our source so we’re going to try to grow them all this time!
I love a good orchid. One of the guides at the fishing lodge always brings me an orchid. I’m up to 8 right now, but I do have a few that didn’t make it. If they’d all made it I would probably have about 15 right now! We always laugh when he brings me another one…we consider them apology (or preemptive apology) orchids. When he brings a preemptive one, we always wonder what it is he’s planning on doing that needs apologizing for! HEHE. There’s been some doozies over the years. I just leave that right here.
xoxo
Hi Kristin! Sorry it’s taken me so long to get to a reply. It’s been one of those… weeks! 😉
I wish you much good luck with your tomatoes! Our sprouts did SO poorly… and then after planting, we’ve lost about 14 Amish Paste (failed to thrive and cutworms), 2 Rutgers (the whole seedling just… disappeared), 3 Principe Borghese Sun dried Tomatoes (again, the seedlings failed, disappeared…), and I’m not sure, but 1 small Yellow Cherry Tomato is holding on… (sigh). So, we are having bad tomato mojo this year. We are down to 6 Amish Paste and I had 3 Firminio’s (not our favs) in reserve, so we’ll see what we get.
The sheep manure we have as is might work in a tilled garden (we do no till, lasagna gardening), but it’s not quite at the decomposed stage we would prefer. Still, by next year, hopefully it will be good for the fruit trees! 🙂
So glad that you are gardening this year – looking forward to your photos and updates over on your blog!
Have a gorgeous day! 😀