Garden Journal :: July 2006

July 1st

Transplant cosmos from kitchen garden path to mound. Transplant four-o'clocks also.

:: the volunteer nasturtium complements the larkspur way better than the verbenas, which have hardly grown. Perhaps they are not getting enough sun.

July 10-11th

:: Babka's glads begin to bloom.

Finally stake and prune tomatoes.

The berries are not looking good this year. I must have forgotten to prune last fall.

July 12-13th

First pick of green beans.

Transplant snapdragons and alyssium growing in gravel drive.

Prune fennel.

:: a photo of fennel swallowing the arch before pruning

Weed and round-up kitchen garden paths and brick walks.

July 14-22nd :: lots of rain; lots of weeding

Harvesting green beans and yellow zuchini.

Pull out blackberries.

Mow fennel.

:: these classy looking sunflowers are growing next to the compost pile.

July 23

Patrick calls me the "Weed Lady" so I live up to the name and fill three wheelbarrows instead of the usual two ... on the sabbath, no less ... "The cow is in the ditch."

July 26th

:: A shot of a future shady spot under the mulberry where the blackberries had grown. All will need pulled because the orange rust cannot be spayed away.

July 28th

Transplant hosta under the lilacs that edge Keith's and our yards. He had rounded up underneath (a concesssion that he was indeed killing them by weed-whipping the bark off?)

Patrick rids the front corner of the garage of a honeysuckle that turns black with powdery mildew and aphids every year.

We buy a clematis for the corner, and some grasses for the mound.