Garden up date

It's gotten a wee bit chilly over the past couple of days but we did get some planting done over the weekend. Kris and I went back to the garden center on Saturday and bought more plants. To try and keep our bill in check we laid out the plants we got on Friday and did a count of what we would need to fill in some of the spaces. We made a list but still managed to buy a few extras :)

So what did we plant?

veggies

3 different varieties of tomatoes.

mini watermelon (seeds)

bottleneck squash

strawberries

parsley

bell pepper

flowers

lantana

aster

geranium (front yard and pots by front door)

dahlia (pots by back steps)

oriental lily

Abyssinian gladioli

marguerite daisy

gerbera daisy

marigold

still to plant

corn

beans

brussel sprouts (my experiment for this year)

lavender

succulents

chrysanthemum (transplant)

iris (transplant)

peony (transplant)

We are going to plant the corn and beans in the little flower bed beside the sunroom. Nik has decided he wants to look after that. I used to have iris there but they needed thinning out so I dug them all up last year and they have wintered out in containers. Most of them will go into the main flower bed on the other side of the sun room. A few of them may show up amongst the corn and beans :) We are also contemplating putting some out by the mail box.

We have a large tree stump that we are working on removing. John burned some more of it out on Saturday. It currently has the bird bath sitting right in the middle and we are contemplating turning the area into another flower bed. Might be a nice spot to put the peonies.

So after the storm that went through on Friday John got up on the roof and checked it all out, cleaned out the gutters and hammered any loose areas back into place. We may have to get some work done by the porch and front right eave.