Spanish jasmine today! (To climb up our wrought iron spiral staircase.) And tomorrow silver fern.(cyathea dealbata)
Broccoli and cauliflower are cool weather plants too - but sometimes they do better in fall cool weather. But I bought plants here today in northern Ohio - lots of broccoli and cauliflower plants at the nursery. I think you can plant onion sets too.
Absolutely nothing for at least another month and a half!
Just harvested our first crop of artichokes of the season and are harvesting lots of Bok Choy too. This is the first year we’ve planted asparagus but will need to wait two years to harvest. Our hot pepper seedling are ready to go in the ground next week. We have a few tomatoes coming up from last year and will be adding some hot house plants to those. We also have lemon cucumbers and zucchini in bloom. If our cool weather holds I may get some English peas this year. We also have basil, sunflowers, strawberries, garlic and thyme. This year d16 wanted to try Chol Roby which did well but I didn’t enjoy at all! DH made me rip out out Rosemarry in front of the house because he thought it was a fire hazard with a woody plant so close to the house but I’ll be replanting Rosemary in the back yard against the fence away from the house. Also need to plant some dill and cilantro before it’s too hot. In Texas you have to time things to avoid the summer heat!
Where is @DrGoogle ? Hope she is ok! I really enjoyed her gardening reports.
After last year’s enthusiasm about eggplant, I just bought a Japanese seedling. Small yellow peppers, onion sets. Cherry and larger tomatoes. The rest I’ll do from seed.
My potatoes last year, in 2 grow bags, didn’t do as well as my friend’s, in hills. (He got larger and more.) But he makes his own compost. Seems they need lots of that (aged compost) and regular watering. I think I’ll up the compost and try again. Got some great stuff the landfill sells.
Gardening is always an exercise of my optimism.
@lookingforward, what type of potatoes and did you get them from a garden store or just…your potatoes with eyes???
So yesterday I went to my community garden - my H was helping me put up my chicken wire - necessary because rabbits are famous for munching in the area my raised bed is!
I had been to the garden Sunday and had removed most of my winter mulch except for some mulch around my garlic (which looks lovely!) . As we were finished up yesterday the gardening expert came over to talk to us - she looked at a “pile” of mulch and said, “that looks like a bunny nest!” It wasn’t very big, but did look “nest-ish”. I moved it slightly - a pair of baby bunny eyes were looking up at me!! Within seconds, three baby bunnies popped out and ran wildly looking for a way to escape! Ironic, since we were putting up a fence to keep them out! They were “big” enough that they should be ok, but omg the shock when I saw those eyes!!! Scared the you-know-what out of me! We did leave a little spot near the next bent back for now to see if they somehow come back.
WHO KNEW YOU COULD GROW BUNNIES IN A GARDEN???
Awww. Bunnies.
I bought organic Katahdin seeds (a New England potato we love, grown a lot in Maine,) online from High Mowing Seeds- in VT, I think. I wanted a regional potato from a regional grower. More or less.
Your grocery potatoes may sprout, but are usually treated not to, for shelf life. Some people use organic store potatoes, but the growth season is so long and I didn’t want to chance that they wouldn’t thrive. Also, in theory, you need to match the type to your days/hours of sunlight. Eg, growing in Texas would be different than New England.
Onions are in! And planted more asparagus-had our first picking on the old crop. Yum!
There must be some updates out there! Planted? Picked?
I PICKED radishes yesterday - just ate them all for lunch! Planted my tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, jalapeno and banana peppers.
I won one of the “grow bags” at a community garden meeting. Planted potatoes this weekend - REALLY curious to see how this works!!! http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Pots-15-Gallon-Soft-Sided-Container/dp/B004O3LPOE
I planted some herbs on Sunday - just the usual culprits - basil, oregano, chives and thyme. I also did both my window boxes and my flower pots and hung flower baskets. Yesterday, I planted the only annuals I do - impatiens in my shade gardens and a new climbing rose for trellis on side of my house.
I see my first baby bell pepper! And tiny little “chocolate sprinkles” variety of cherry tomatoes.
Right now I’m focused on a climbing rose I have – it came with the house, and I never had/taken care of roses before. There are a bazillion buds, but I also noticed some mold on a few leaves/buds – and what look like aphids, if aphids can be light brown/almost orange-y looking. So the war to keep the rosebush going is on. All advice is appreciated by this novice.
I planted tomatoes on Sunday & a bell pepper. Many more veggies to go - and herbs. Lots of flowers too – love hydrangeas, salvia, lobia - blues, purples & pinks!
Thyme and chives are blooming. Basil got cold and drowned and is unhappy. Tomatoes are growing to my surprise. The grass looks like ##%%&@%. S2 has been doing a heroic job moving rocks. Our land drops off a good ten feet behind our garage and all the dirt and rocks from our basement addition got added to the hill. So put in a set of steps made out of the flatter rocks and we put in a couple of terraces. I’ve got various natives and ferns growing there. At the base we’ve carved out a round flat area which will be wood chips this year, may be a hard surface eventually, with a little water fountain, or if we got ambitious a small gazebo, or maybe just a hammock. I’ve planted ferns, and hostas and bunch of ground cover and we’ll see what takes. The rain garden which went in last year needs weeding. I moved a bunch of stuff so I could try growing rasberries and blackberries in a sunnier spot in the yard. We’ll see what happens there. I am only just now seeing the first leaf or two from the stick we put in the ground a couple of weeks ago.
I’ve picked quite a few crunchy cucumbers but the leaves on the plant are starting to look bad.
I tore out a huge mess between the sidewalk and curb and put in two small trees- a satsuma and a sweet bay magnolia. They are both growing well and the magnolia is blooming. I was lucky to find a dwarf bayberry that only gets 4’ high and wide. It looks good but I haven’t seen obvious new growth.
For the low stuff I have many different flowers and herbs. The sages are doing well and the mother of thyme I put between the stepping stones. The cinnamon basil and rudbeckia are getting huge. The bee balm survived my rough transplanting and it just started to bloom. The catnip is a wreck- the neighborhood cats come over and sit on it and they are loving it to death!
@katliamom You probably need to prune the leaves that have the powdery mildew the best you can. That tends to pop up this time of year in “June gloom” weather. I found that I could spray off most of the aphids (with the hose) on our climbing rose but you might check out a nursery—there are plenty non chemical and low toxicity sprays.
Okay, so three years ago I planted one bok choy plant. After a while, it went to seed. So two years ago, I had a few more bok choy plants, all of them volunteers. It’s taken over a small corner of my garden, and now I have lots of bok choy, which is great in soup, seeds itself so readily that in my Portland, OR garden I have baby plants year round (and they’re really good stir-fried, and I’ve just discovered that the flower shoots are really good raw in salads.
@musicamusica, thanks – I was unsure whether spraying aphids would only increase the mold (we’ll be getting afternoon rain every day for the next few days.) I’m going to buy some ladybugs and see if they can help out – unless you think spraying the rose bush won’t exacerbate the aphids issue.
@dmd77, I love boy choy! Sounds like I should plant one and wait for a take over 
My entire herb garden died last year. I think the SE is just too warm. On the other hand, my pineapple plants, planted years before, are all growing. Friends call my house the pineapple plantation.
What’s the trick to grow basil? I killed three seedlings so far.