Garden Update

The vegetable plants in my containers are really thriving despite having some issues with what I think are white flies.  So far they seem to be happy with the dirt and are for the most part leaving my plants alone.

Here of some pics I’ve taken today of the plants:

All of them together!

My radishes! I’m not really sure what’s going on with them.  It’s been 30 days, but they don’t look done.  Maybe I planted them too deep?  I tried digging one up a little but really couldn’t see much so I stopped because I didn’t want to disturb them too much.

The cherry tomatoes are growing nicely!

The beans are overflowing the container!  They look like they are getting to the point of producing some veggies!

Cucumber plants!

I think it’s time to cut and dry some of my dill, and the chives look to be usable now, too!

How is your garden doing?

Dill-icious!

My dill and chives are growing so much!

So I cut some of the dill to use in our tuna fish sandwiches!  Yum!

More Garden Pics

I took some more updated pictures of my developing garden.

Radishes, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans.

Two new ones…onions and more cucumbers.

Another new one…green peppers.

My dill and chives are really growing!

The blue creeping phlox has flowers!

Mexican Heather…I bought four of them.

Painted Lady Hibiscus.

I Have Strawberries!

NOTE: I meant to finish this post yesterday, but I fell asleep!  Oops!

My plants are really starting to take off!  Except for a couple of my new plants, but that’s to be expected.  And my orange tree really doesn’t look like it’s hibernating…it’s dead.  UGH!

Stupid cold weather!

Next time I’m buying one of those specific cold weather blankets, if it’s going to get this cold for this long again!  What I covered it with just didn’t do it any good!  *sigh*

Anyway…In this container, I have dill at the top and chives at the bottom just starting to come in!

This is the blueberry plant that is not a stick. LOL.  It’s doing tremendously well and I can’t wait to see it fill out more!

My red raspberry has more leaves now, too!

Remember when my blackberry plant was just a stick?  It now has more leaves than the raspberry!

And finally, my strawberry plants are growing so well!  One of the plants is producing strawberries!  It’s the plant in the lower right hand side.

Here’s a closeup!

In addition to these, my phlox is doing good and bad.  I have three of the four greening up and looking like they’ll be alright.  The fourth one looks dead, but you don’t always know…it may come back when the roots get established.  Then again it was confusing trying to split them up from the package they came in.  I won’t know for sure if they all died until the flowers start coming in!  If one plant has two colors, then I know I didn’t do it right!

The butterfly bush still looks like a bunch of sticks, too, but I expected that.  It hasn’t had enough time to establish its roots yet!

Some of the other plants I had in the yard took a beating with the long winter season we had.  My bamboo seems to be coming back from it.  The other three plants that I also got from my Mom don’t look good.  I’ll be watching them though to see if they come back.

I need to clear out the front of its plants again.  I cut them down last year, but they are very hardy plants and are coming back.

Figures the ones I don’t want live and the ones I do don’t!

I know I have to dig out the stumps or they’ll grow back, but it’s so much work!  I’ll have to do a little bit at a time I think.

That’s all for the garden update!

How does your garden look?

My Garden is Growing…

…very slowly, but it’s growing!

I did some work out in the back yard today.  I moved some “bricks” from a failed garden area to start working on an area that I hope will someday be an outdoor patio with a butterfly garden and other plants all around.

This is what I’ve done today:

The plants in this “planter” are creeping phlox.  They should be blue, pink, red, and white.  I guess I’ll see if I got what I ordered when they start flowering.

I’m just hoping I split them up and planted them right!

As you can see, some of them look better than the others.  So I’ll be crossing my fingers that I’ve done a good job with them.  Gardening is still new to me in many ways and I’m learning as I go!

Some of the other plants I put in earlier are looking pretty good…at least some of them are!

These are my strawberry plants:

They were looking as bad as my creeping phlox when I got them.  They were all scrunched together and had to be pried apart before planting.  But they are looking good now!  I love having them in the hanging bag!  They are so easy to take care of and keep some of the bugs off of them!

This is my red raspberry plant:

It had only one small leaf when I bought it.  It is right below the strawberries for now.  On the other side is a blackberry plant, but it still looks like a stick.

This is one of my blueberry plants:

I am totally impressed with this plant!  I think I’m learning which plants to buy at the store because this plant like the red raspberry had a couple of leaves when I bought it.  Now it is thriving!  The other blueberry is also still a stick! 

I also planted some dill and chives today in a big pot I bought to match one I received from my Mom and the boys for my birthday last year.  I have it sitting inside my screened in patio for now until it warms up more…just in case I have to bring it in for the night.

What are you planting?