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Got more stuff planted!

18 years ago

Thank goodness I got to it yesterday, because it's been raining since late last evening...got a little rumble in the sky too :D

Scabiosa

Abelmoschus manihot (1 lone seedling)

The rest of the Chinese Forget-me-Not

Burgundy Celosia

Pink Candle Celosia

Moved some self-sown Bells of Ireland over by the Cosmic Orange Cosmos where I also have the Green Envy Zinnia. They looked pretty sad after transplanting but the rain and cooler temps seem to have helped. Supposed to only be mid to upper 60's for the next 10 days...perfect for getting to the rest of the seedlings :D

Broke down and bought a 1 gal. size Japanese Long Eggplant on Friday and planted it out yesterday in the flower bed. Eggplants have pretty flowers but these purple ones seem really big! A few fruits are just starting too! Not bad for $2.50!! It's a pretty one and has the leaf and and stem coloration like a Triple Purple Datura....beautiful!

Comments (4)

  • 18 years ago

    Wonderful! I've been so excited to see all my winter sown babies sprout.
    I've been potting mine up since my new bed isn't ready for them and I just hate the thought of loosing them in my other beds. So I'll grow them out a little bigger in the greenhouse before putting them out.

    Had a beautiful weekend for gardening, mid 70s, sunshine and a light breeze. After several days of rain it's just perfect outside :)

  • 18 years ago

    Those Japanese eggplant taste good too!

    I finally got my tomatoes planted out .... 78°F here today, but pleasant. Hope to get my remaining pepper plants out before the sun goes down today. They're talking high 70s and 80s here for the next week; cut more and bigger vents in the containers that still have seedlings - can't trust those starlings enough to take the tops off completely. Hope my lettuce doesn't fry.

  • 18 years ago

    This weekend was vegetation management, mowing and weedwacking.
    May was kind of a bust for planting out, cold, then the week of rain, I did manage to move 3 year old perennials without them noticing the move during the rain storms. The weekend before was nicer, but I was opening the pool and they finally got the corn sowed in the fields.
    I plant by the moon, so all the Ws'd or Spring sowed plants can go in this week.
    So far I only have planted, white taters, red taters, red onions, yellow onions, white onions, broccoli, cauliflower,maters, spinach, leaf lettuce and one tipsy pot of pansies, marigold creeping thyme, continer planted the freesia and tuberose, plus another hanging basket of tunias and managed to get this year Russell Lupines in the front perennial bed. Direct sowed some sunflowers, wildflowers and ornamental corn.
    I was exciting this morning to see buds forming on some daylily seedlings after 3 years of foliage, I supposedly bought alot of Pizza Crust daylilies off Ebay so anxious to see what they really are.
    I wish those bells of Irelend would sprout for me, gees no sign yet. I may pop them back into the refrig, or move them to a slightly cooler place then West sun.
    I have a variety of eggplants this year, whatever came up for the "Gourmet blend" from Burpee, Rosa Bianca, Fairytale, and whatever the ag kids were selling at the greenhouse plant sale, most likely black beauty.
    Nothing on sale here yet, but did pick up some Okra for fun yesterday while getting a new toilet for the remodeled bathroom at Home Depot.

  • 18 years ago

    all my veggies went in 5/20, we did not have any drops below 40 but not much above either and they looking like champs. I started peppers and toms indoor but so late that moved them to unheated greenhouse 2 weeks after germination.
    still have chard not planted- that one I am growing as ornamental.

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