Your garden is always spectacular looking. Love the Vernal Tu-Tone. One of these centuries I'm going to remember to spray my lilies before them.

Darn it; I had my reply all ready to submit, but had some thing mis spelled,and backed up to fix it,and away went the entire reply, makes my blood boil when this happens, I was commenting on how pretty the 2 daylilies are and the clematis blooms, and how invasive HOney suckle is here. I keep spraying brush killer on it to kill it out, but it keeps coming back.,The brocolli you have growing is not the kind that makes the little florets?,I have never seen brocolli grow.its sure pretty and green.I planted 2 nmore tomatoe plnts about a week ago,and they are double in size already.and my daughter brought me 4 pks of radish seeds, and I planted almost half of 2 of the packages,and she brought me 2 cucumber plants, I have them boxed in and hid( I hope) from the racoons and hope they dont find them,I have bigger pots around them to hide them.They ate all myy blue berries and I didnt get any of them, other then about 6 I ate when I first seeen some ripe ones.Your yard long beans is what I want to see in that pot.beans might have to lay on the ground?

Thank you both!

Jean, I just hate it when I write out a reply and it dissapears also. I Never get it exactly the same when I rewrite it.

That is a trumpet honeysuckle I have there and not invasive like the Japanese type often is.

Brocoli makes the heads and I used to grow that too and will be again as I bought seeds. This is brocoli raab, which doesn't grow heads and is used for the green leaves. Tastes very brocoli like to me.

The beans all vine and I have bamboo steaks that I am going to stick in the pots for them to climb on. Deffinately don't want beans laying on the ground!

I have some baby cucumbers already set on my salad bush cucumber polants and I see more flowers coming on them. Some of my cucumber plants are only really small seedlongs as I grew those myself from seed.

I just love seeing what you are up to.

Broccoli rabe is a great idea. I tried growing broccoli once and the little caterpillars were terrible and you couldn't see them until you cooked the broccoli and they turned yellow! eeeeewwww. But I'm going to file away the broccoli rabe idea. Do you ever grow swiss chard?

Love Vernal two tone.

I had slugs too, but only on Happy Returns, and they were really chewed up.

Christine

I have slugs and snails both. Lucky me (not!). I used to have only slugs but brought home snails from plants I bought at a local really nice mom and pop type nursery around here. I know that is where they came from as I have often seen the snails at their nursery. Big place though with lots of nice plants to buy in a really big open field.

I have Swiss Chard this year for the first time ever. Planted BRIGHT LIGHTS Swiss Chard. Oh and I have those green really hard to see worms on my brocoli raab. But I very carefully pick them off before using. I also wash the backs of the leaves especially well as that is where those white cabbage butterflys lay those eggs. They like anything in the brocolli and cabbage family.

I've never tried the broccoli raab, but if it tastes like broccoli, I would like it. I keep meaning to plant Swiss chard. Your tomato plants look so very good! Mine are just starting to get little tomatoes, & I am so ready for a garden grown tomato! Hate those things you get at the store they try to pass off as tomatoes.

Your veggie garden is coming along nicely, won't be long before it's ready to harvest and you and your friends and neighbors will be enjoying fresh veggie's that actually have some flavor.
Linda

I planted the chard but it is too small to do much with. Somehow I thought it would grow bigger. Maybe it still will.

I love brocoli so like anything that tastes like brocoli. Like brussels sprouts too! I have some little green tomatoes on there but not many. I hope they really start setting as I want a bumper year of tomatoes to eat lol!

I really used to grow a large variety of veggies and so many tomatoes. Just was really ready this year to say the heck to the cut back on planting veggies plan and really get back into it.

Nice veggie garden!! Just a nice thing to have right outside your door. Have a good dinner, sounds good!!
Cindy

Everything is looking great. Looks like you'll have a bumper crop of vegetables.
Val

Rita, I love broccoli rabe, so I'll be there for dinner. Hmmm. guess I'm too late. Your veggies look great. This is so funny. I planted some squash, okra, and cucumbers to go along with my tomatoes...so I am doing the veggie thing too.

I am uprooting one of my iris beds...not going to weed three of them anymore...We'll see how long the two beds make it.

kay

Cindi, I put the new veggie garden fairly near the kitchen door as that was really the only lawn space I had where I could put it.

Val, I just wanted to have veggies again this year.

Kay, the brocoli raab was great. Sauteed with some garlic and onion powder. Hamburger on the side. Yumm!

I have never grown squash or okra. Or eggplant. I have tried midget watermelon (not worth the space for two or three melons) and I have also grown cantalope type melons. This must be the year of the veggie.

What are you planning to do with the iris bed instead?

Veggie gardens look great! I only have 2 tomatoes and some herbs. Wanted to try a zucchini, maybe there's still time I don't know.
Your clematis looks like mine, maybe it is the same.
And I like the picture with the bird house, with lilies picking out from daylily foliage. And once again, your daylilies are so nice and green! More than half of mine are yellow, my DH complains that it looks unsightly.

The House Wrens are bulding in that birdhouse shown in the picture. Doing their second clutch. Everthing is green because we have had lots of rain but lots of sunshine too. The daylilies are loving it. They have never grown this big before.

I just had to have my veggies back, and especially more tomato plants than I had the past two years. Couldn't take the veggie cut back plan any longer ha-ha!

Beautiful pictures, Rita. My roses don't get the tender loving care that yours do, and you can tell. :)

Btw, your broccoli raab is actually dinosaur kale aka Lacinato kale.

Really? The guy at the nursery told me it was brocoli raab. I never planted brocoli raab before so I guess I just don't know the difference. I have eaten this raw in salads and also cooked.

Of course since you told me what it was I had to go look it up on the web. Thanks for the ID!

Rita,

This past winter I learned how to make my own Mozerella. It's easy and incredibly delicious! If you go to You Tube and type in mozerella a bunch of videos will come up with people showing how it's done. The ingredients are easy to get. If you're interested in making your own I suggest you go to: http://www.cheesemaking.com . I can't wait for the tomatoes to ripen so I can make a salad with them, fresh mozerella and basil.

Lisa

Ah well, oh okay. Not into cheeezemaking here but am waiting impatiently for vine ripened tomatoes. I only a have a few green ones so far.