Today was a day for doing unusual planting. We have run out of room in our vegetable beds, and still have a whole bunch of vegetable planting to do. Chief among the plants that needed spaces were the winter squash and pumpkins. So after consulting with Illijana, we decided to plant them in one of the perennial flower beds. This particular bed used to be quite shady because it held a full size (30 foot tall) hawthorne tree. The tree was a beauty, but it was shading our apple and pear espalier, so I took it down this past winter. This opened the bed to far more sunlight.
I weeded a major portion of the bed today, using hands, hula hoe, and finally dutch hand hoe. I then spread mulch over the freshly weeded area. I then planted the bed with squash plants that we had started from seed on May 5th. They were ready to be in the ground. Here is a picture of part of the bed. There are a number of transplanted squash plants in the picture. Can you spot them? Click on the picture to enlarge it.
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| Perennial bed with squash plants |
Plant of the day
One of my favorite garden plants is the self-seeding wonder Geum. (pronounced jee-um). We planted Geum chiloense variety Mrs. Bradshaw several years ago, and it has come up consistently in different parts of the garden each year. Its lovely scarlet color and cheery presence is a garden delight each year. Here are two photos of one of the gardens Geum plants from today.
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