A large garden pot that looks mostly empty. but if you were to zoom in you will see a bunch of little green spikes which are the tulip emerging
This plant is older than my child.
It's a Siam Tulip that my mil bought for us as a house warming gift while I was still pregnant. That was almost 5 years ago. Every years it makes a come back in April.
Peas and cucumber seedlings - with radishes and spinach for ground cover - growing up an 8 ft cattle panel
Roma tomatoes, bell pepper, and lemon squash
Rapunzel and sun gold tomatoes and 5 different varieties of peppers. nasturtium and gem marigold
Coral Honeysuckle in a pot being trained along a fence
I've been so busy I forgot to update!
Here are just a few images I took this morning!(Info in alt)
Top left: Bed 0 - Peas, Spinach, and radishes Top Right: Bed 1 - Squash, peppers, bush peas, spinach, lettuce Middle Left: Bed 3 - Peppers, Roma tomatoes, squash, carrots, lettuce, onions Middle Right: Bed 4 - vining tomatoes, peppers, walking onions, radishes, lettuce Bottom left: Bed 5 - Long Beans, Lemon cucumbers, Mango melon, edamame, mache, arugula, ground cherry, lettuce, spinach Bottom right: Beds 6,7,8 - popcorn, pumpkin, bush beans, okra, radish, spinach, eggplant, tomato, carrot
🌱 The beds are finally done! Seedlings transplanted and tons of seeds in the ground.
All thats left are a few pots and the grow towers.
I cant wait to put the shade cloth up because the sun is so brutal already. This summer is going to be horrendous, I can feel it.
Bed breakdown in alt.(roughly)
Bumblebee on a blueberry bush
🌱 🐝 bonus bumble
White Snap Dragon with red yellow behind it
Red Snap dragon with orange poppy growing next to it
Johnny Jump Up Viola and Five Spot
White Yarrow and pink and blue Bachelors Button
🌱 I'm in love with my pollinator bed 💚
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Beds 6, 7, and 8. all planted with seeds and starts and covered with pine straw mulch
Bed Five planted with seeds and starts and covered with pine straw mulch. Starts for Peppers, tomatoes, and eggplant are covered in wire mesh cages
Five beds down and only Three more beds to go!
The plan is to start my succession seeds this weekend and Shade cloth will be going up sometime in the next few weeks.
I'm so hopeful this season. The seedlings are coming up so fast and strong so far!
Radish sprouts in a garden bed surrounded by pine straw.
🌱 THE SEEDS ARE STARTING TO SPROUT!! Radishes, Peas, Spinach, and Amaranth are accounted for so far! Everything else has a much longer sprouting window.
Tomorrow will be a very heavy planting day for me, starts and seeds, pots and beds and bags. Might even so a peanut experiment this year.
Pink cornflower
dark pink snap dragons and an orange poppy
Johnny jump up viola and five spot
A bed of tomato and pepper starts with nasturtium and marigoldwaiting to be planted
🌱 The starts have officially been purchased and I'll be starting succession seeds soon.
The flowers are blooming like mad and I couldn't be happier.
holding a large carrot over an ungrounded bed of carrots and onions
hand over a sink holding the large carrot and a very chunky carrot that is half its size
I also did a second small harvest of carrots. 2.3 lbs this time.
I present the largest and chonkiest.
Not done with outside but done with work in the garden specifically because the sun is to brutal for direct work.
Small 1x4x6 bed with an 8 ft cattle panel and fresh pine mulch
A pot of bee balm and lavender and a repotted blackberry with strawberries.
🌱 The newly named Bed 0 has been planted with peas, spinach, and radish.
A few pots have been refreshed and mulched as well as some terracotta stakes with bottles added.
Can't wait to see how those work out in this heat.
Carrot tops starting to push out of the soil.
🌱 Look at that cheeky shoulder, you little minx.
Cover up, I'm not ready for you yet 🤣
Beds 4-8 now full and nearly ready for planting
🌱 Shifted around some of the soil from other beds that were to full to add new amendments to. Also added more compost and all thats left is mulch but the sun got to hot.
I have to replace the hose before I can plant anything but its so close to being ready!
Sideview of a Bumblebee on a blueberry flower
Bumblebee(stinger forward) on a blueberry flower
Beds 4 and 5 connected with an arch trellis and behind them beds 6 7 and 8. all built and half filled with mushroom compost
Bed 9. A small 1x6x4 bed with a cattle panel attached for peas.
🌱 Beds 4 and 5 raised and beds 6, 7, 8, and 9 are officially built!
Need one more run for soil/compost this weekend for top offs and amend beds 1-3 and work on pots and grow tower and mulch everything.
Unfortunately, we have a frost in the forecast and we always have one April so no planting yet.
I tell people every year that we always have a frost in April and they never believe me.
It caught me the first and second year when I moved here and never again since lol
the northern half of the garden. Two beds were given 6 inches more height and two beds were built behind them.
🌱 Before and After!
Got what I could done this morning before I had to pick up Bean and then went out and finished what I started while Husband cooked dinner.
I believe these are rhododendron
Yellow Poppy
Orange Poppy
marigolds and surround foliage with a small fairy garden
🌱 The flowers are waking up and its making me so very very happy!
Bed filled with flowers and foliage with a green net between two posts.
Two garden beds connected by a trellis that have six inches of height added
Half frame work for two beds and ground cleared beneath them
Busy morning! A trip to Lowes and then got to work!
I hung the new trellis net for the climbing aster and blue and white butterfly pea flowers. Put in place the bricks and boards to raises beds four and five. started foundation work to add the three new beds.
#garden
A large shelf unit, a small table, and a small shelve unit all with various plants and planting things. very organized chaos
Officially cleaned up, down sized, and reorganized the garden corner of the patio.
Beds six, seven, eight, and nine will be built this week.
Bed six and eight will be 3x4x12.
Bed eight will be 3x4x6.
Bed Nine will be 1x4x6 with a vertical trellis.
Bed One. Gets the perfect amount of sun and shade. 3x8x10
Bed Two : Pollinator friendly dedicated bed. 3x8x10
Bed three. The most sun scorched of all the beds. 3x8x8
Beds four and five, joined together by a 16ft cattle panel trellis. 2x8x6
Bed Introductions!(so far)
Numbered in order of creation:
Bed One is the farthest south.
Bed Two is a pollinator dedicated bed.
Bed Three gets the most sun and needs replaced desperately 😅.
Beds Four and Five have a trellis and will be raised six inches higher.
Add Southeastern Gardener please!
Nice! My sweety drop from last year overwintered so beautifully! The leaves are coming in so I'm really hopeful to have early peppers.
From a distance, a fenced in garden area woth 5 beds and numerous pots.
A stack of wood and blocks to build beds with.
Bed three: the pollinator bed waking up for the year.
An unknown flower type from a three season bloom mix.
It is the start of the 2026 season! We started this garden in 2022 with two beds and have grown exponentially since then.
I'm working on adding height to two beds and adding three more small beds this spring.
Today, after picking up compost, I was able to weed the beds and clean up the space.
Baby Blue Eyes
Test test. Is this thing on?