It’s Oregon weather here, my plants love it. We finished building and painting one trellis for the rose in front and we do another one for the side wall.
This morning there was a very pretty bird, yellow on the bellow, perched up on my tomato cage. It was primping it self.
On the garden front, I get a lot more cucumbers and only one tomato. I’m planning to remove some of the bean plants because they are getting older now. I still have 3-4 lbs every week. Happy gardening!
I live where " you can get frostbite and a bad sunburn in the same week." Had to cover and take in plants last week for 3 nights because of frost warnings. Today was well into the 80s.
My yard is pretty much all shade. For annuals, that means coleus, begonias ( tuberous and wax) Impatients ( NG and regular) and a few others. For perennials- hosta, astilbe, pachysandra, bleeding heart and coral bells. Have also had some luck with black-eyed susan in partial sun.
I planted my backyard raingarden this weekend while dh took care of the lawn. It’s been a construction zone for the last year, but last week we pulled up 30 feet of backyard driveway and replaced it with a plastic grid you can drive on, but plant grass in. If you don’t use it regularly it ends up looking like lawn. Since I think we’ve actually driven a car into the backyard three times in the last fifteen years I’m not worried on that score! We’ve never put a car in the garage. I planted mostly natives, but some begonias, bleeding heart, ferns, cardinal lobelia, some sort of iris. As usual I managed to kill the butterfly weed before I got it out of the pots and into the ground. I’ve done this multiple times over the last 20 years. Never have managed to grow it in any of my gardens!
Not planning anything new in the ground, as I probably won’t have much water to spare soon, but allt the usual suspects in earthboxes.
As expected…new restrictions start in June…my spring plantings will be rocks. 
So sorry, Shrinkrap!
Can you take a small bucket into the shower and use whatever water it collects in your garden?
That’s what I was thinking, too. Any water that is not soapy or contaminated can be used in the garden.
Is the soapy restriction about runoff? Cuz my grandmother swore her Victory Garden was so lush and productive because she used leftover dish water.
Soap was quite different in the days of Victory Gardens. 
It was lye and lard; nowadays, the list of ingredients reads like a content of a toxic dump.
Well, whodathunkit? http://appalachianheritagesoaps.com/blog/2011/07/31/lye-soap-use-3-insecticide/
Of course, Grandma’s not around to ask. But this year I am having an early insect issue.
I’ve had different luck with flowers from seeds. Nasturtiums in currant garden? No issues? Zinnias and sunflowers? Not one came up. I think the issue is sun - but also possible consistent watering at the critical times.
We had a very nice garden in Hargeisa, Somalia which was 100% watered with gray water. The slight sewage-y smell is my madeleine.
We finally got some rain yesterday after no rain at all in May so I didn’t have to water my plants at all yesterday.(sorry CA folks - I know our “drought” was a very, very, very wee one.)
“…nowadays, the list of ingredients reads like a content of a toxic dump.”
LOL
Well I’m home today and got to see my garden for a change, busy weekend did not allow me to putter around my garden. I think the bees are finally found some of my squash plants, I’ve got some squash from one plant that I know I didn’t pollinate.
All the green beans have been pulled and i will plant more strawberries in place.
Last night my husband put traps out for the rodents and sure enough he caught two fat ones. I think this area I live used to be growing field for fruits and vegetables, so these animals are expected. But I’m glad husband took care of them because it was definitely an ew factor for me.
We’re finally getting rain, a good soaker, two days now. One of the potato shoots has buds. Last time I tried to grow them, the biggest was the size of a gumball. I think they actually grow the most as the leaves die back and then for a few more days.I probably picked too soon last time.
^^that is likely. My parents would not harvest their field until the plants looked kind of wilted and lifeless.
My tomato garden is out of the greenhouse. We re-installed the drip system to water the garden. The timing is perfect - the weather is supposed to be hot as heck this weekend.
Ticked. Off.!!!
Last visited my community garden Thursday night. Everything looked great! Went tonight - the broccoli and cauliflower has been nibbled to stalks. The peas and green beans munched on as well. Ugh. I didn’t chicken wire it, but noticed that my garden neighbor DID chicken wire hers yet her broccoli was gone too!
Dang critters.
If she surrounded it with wire, it’s a good bet that the caterpillars of “cabbage white” butterflies are to blame. They can be voracious with anything in the brassica family! Floating row covers might be a better bet. Some places sell barrel shaped thin cloth covers so you can completely surround each plant.
Slugs!!! Or micro bunnies that are small enough to get through the chicken wire. Grrrrrrrrowl! I hate these pests.