Phaedra's 2021 Garden

[Phaedra]

Good morning, it's a whole new week, having a garden means there will be endless tasks to do. What do you plan to do this week?

Here are flowers on the stage now

Time to start cutting back some bushes and cleaning the pond area.

 

[flowerbug]

Here are flowers on the stage now
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the fringed lillies are fabulous! and always like roses.

 

[Phaedra]

Repurposed some materials and built the second sheltered sand bath hut for one of the flocks.

The seedlings transplanted in the vertical planter grow quite well. Pea, spinach, brassicas all look good.

 

[baymule]

I love your gardens and flowers!

 

[Carol Dee]

@Phaedra Geiermann you have the most amazing flowers and worlds luckiest chickens! The vegetable towers look interesting, I am excited to see them all filled out.

 

[Phaedra]

Seedlings waiting for transplanting

 

[Phaedra]

Many lovely peacock butterflies on the butterfly bush.

 

[Phaedra]

Visitor of today, a long-tailed tit. Seems most of tits love the handmade food basket for them.

 

[Phaedra]

Keep working! Pricking seedlings into bigger tray, so they will develop a good root system in coming few weeks. I guess these will be my last batch of 2021 leafy greens, next month I will focus on planting garlic and propagating from cuttings.

This summer is too cold and too rainy, tomatoes, melons, eggplants didn't do well, peppers also grow very slowly.

Propagated more strawberries, as some old ones (already the 3rd year) I will remove them before winter.

Two already transplanted, these 4 also did quite well, their roots can already be seen from the bottom.

Flowers are doing very well.

Hopefully from next year there will be more this poppy in the garden, love the color!

The young hydrangea propagated last autumn from cutting, one is damaged by chicken in spring, so the growth is set back a bit; the other one grows amazingly and the flowers start to blossom. Later I will move them into another bigger pots again and let them overwinter in the greenhouse.

Kind of mini-size nursery

 

[Phaedra]

Harvested and cleaned some beds, then transplanted seedlings

Covered with mesh, see you next month!